Cooper Stretches Lead As McCrory Complaints Dismissed

The equipment glitch forced a tedious process of manually entering the early ballots late on November 8, and mistakes were possible, county elections board head William Brian Jr. said at a news conference.

On election night Cooper lead incumbent Pat McCrory by about 5,000 votes.

Even after the legal challenges are resolved McCrory may ask for a recount, so it’s possible North Carolinians may not know who their next Governor is until some time in 2017. “Now the state board of election is saying if you wrote his name in for them even though you didn’t bubble, you are supposed to sign it to say you assisted”.

All counties go through provisional ballots and decide which ones to allow and deny. State Board of Elections officials told county elections staffers Wednesday to wait for a list of affected voters from DMV before counting those provisional ballots.

– On what was to be the day for counties across North Carolina to certify vote totals from last week’s elections, local boards of elections in many counties were instead spending Friday addressing challenges from Republicans to some of the votes cast.

Marc Elias told reporters Friday that trailing Republican Gov. “Voters chose a new governor-elect, it’s time for the McCrory campaign to accept it”.

Yesterday, we saw the latest developments in this extremely troubling story when Republicans filed 50 new election complaints around the state.

At issue is an equipment failure that forced election officials to tediously hand-record the 94,000 votes cast in Durham County during early balloting, with results not being reported until almost midnight on election night. Pat McCrory by more than 5,000 votes in that race. The last-minute early voting ballots were delayed reportedly because of malfunctions in the voting machines, but N.C. GOP lawyer Tom Stark argued that because the count includes allegedly corrupt data the ballots should be recounted.

Durham County’s election board scheduled a hearing Friday to consider any evidence showing its early-voting ballots could have been miscounted on election night after exhausted workers had to transcribe the results of some 94,000 votes due to equipment failure.

A delay extends uncertainty about the vote margin between Democrat Roy Cooper and Gov.

Mary Potter Summa is the Board Chair and said, “We had two separate protests”. Wake County alone added about 2,000 votes to Cooper’s lead on Friday.

As counties across North Carolina continue to count absentee and provisional ballots, Roy Cooper’s campaign said Friday his lead over Pat McCrory has grown to more than 7,400 votes statewide and is expected to get larger.

If McCrory trails by 10,000 or fewer votes once counties submit their final tallies, he could demand a recount.

No one had been to Edgecombe County Board of Elections to complain either, Edgecombe Elections Director Jerry Spruell said.

More than 60,000 provisional ballots were cast on Election Day or during early voting. Since the allegations surfaced, the McCrory campaign filed protests calling to investigate absentee ballots in 11 other counties where the NCDP donated to similar PACs.

On the other side of Raleigh on Thursday, leading pollsters and political scientists gathered to review the election and voter attitudes. The DMV said Friday that it has delivered information connected to about 8,100 driver’s license numbers.