Durham County denies request to recount 94000 votes

Cooper now leads by about 4,750 votes. Meanwhile, blowback that erupted after the bill became law earlier this year didn’t hurt North Carolina’s ranking in Forbes’ annual list of the “Best States for Business”. Wake County Board of Elections chairman Ellis Boyle, on counting mail-in ballots and damaged ballots for the governor’s race.

Durham officials said “minor complications” occurred starting early on Election Day.

In the Piedmont Triad, the governor is protesting votes in Alamance, Davidson, Forsyth, Guilford, Rockingham and Stokes counties. Political scientists say about half of all provisional ballots are thrown out and those counted tend to lean Democratic or mirror the general election outcome.

The State Board of Elections is investigating “irregularities” with Bladen County absentee ballots, where volunteers might have helped people fill out ballots without disclosing that they did so, which state law requires. Until the state advises the counties on what to do, votes can’t be canvased.

Elias said Friday that this was unlikely, and that even if every challenged ballot was tossed – and every one had been marked for Cooper – the Democrat would win. Her ruling was in response to a lawsuit that said DMV wasn’t submitting registration information to elections boards.

The North Carolina Republican Party’s top attorney says with thousands of votes yet to count, Gov. Those voters had until 5 p.m. Thursday to show proof of residency but Smith is not sure how many were resolved.

On Thursday, a few lawyers and and some of the local party officials sat in the audience watching the three board members review the provisional ballots, which were sealed inside envelopes.

Right now those formal ballot protests are still being filed. Libertarian Lon Cecil captured 101,574 votes, for just over 2 percent. Ten curbside ballots were also added in during the meeting, five going to McCrory and four to Cooper.

McCrory’s campaign, however, argues it is following the legal process to ensure all legitimate votes are counted.

As the News & Observer reported, a quick analysis found that 167 – not hundreds – of absentee ballots seemed to contain the handwriting of seven people – not one person.

Gov. Pat McCrory, left, trails Roy Cooper by about 5,000 votes.

McCrory’s campaign said those complaints would “void anywhere between 100 to 200 ballots cast by suspected felons, dead people and double voters”.

The results of those races will become official November 29, when the State Board of Elections will certify results for all federal, statewide, multidistrict and judicial contests. “There’s additional cases of voter fraud being discovered each day”. Pat McCrory by just a fraction of 1 percent – about 6,600 votes out of almost 4.7 million cast.

Cooper declared himself the victor on election night but has kept a low profile since then, and his staff and legal team said McCrory’s fraud allegations are a sign of desperation. It is time for Pat McCrory to accept he’s lost, stop wasting taxpayer time and money, and allow for the peaceful transition of power.