N Carolina governor race in balance with scrutinized ballots

Elias said challenges were rejected by Republican-dominated county election boards in Halifax, Forsyth, Warren, and Mecklenburg. As explained by a business systems analyst from the North Carolina State Board of Elections and the company behind the software used across the state, the error occurred after the cards hit a memory limit.

“This is unprecedented”, said Brad Crone, a longtime Democratic consultant and North Carolina history buff.

Counties are still working through formal election protests, supported by Republican Gov. “With each passing day, we discover more and more cases of voting fraud and irregularities”.

Cooper is relying on “piecemeal results from a handful of Democrat-leaning counties in order to deflect attention away from serious voter fraud concerns that are emerging across the state”, Diaz said in a statement. On election night, the difference was 4,879. McCrory’s campaign says that protests over election results are being filed in 50 counties.

State elections officials are scheduled to finalize tallies statewide on November 29 though that date could be postponed to early December if county results remain uncertified.

“Every vote should count in an election and the process should be clear and honest”, said Stark.

The delayed canvass in New Hanover County prolongs speculation about the close Board of Commissioners race.

A win by Cooper would be the only governorship pick-up for Democrats nationally this year. Some of the ballots appeared to be filled in by a volunteer who did not fill out a required disclosure form indicating the voter received help. Munn said absentee ballots are common in Bladen County because of “harassment and intimidation at the polls”. He challenged 11,000 provisional ballots on the grounds that they might have been cast in the wrong precincts. Franklin Graham was written in on the sample ballot.

At this point in the process, several voters have expressed they’re ready for the election to be over. Counties may, however, delay canvass for a “reasonable time” if the initial counting has not been completed.

“I don’t think there is any scenario where this could be thrown into the legislature”, he said. “We allowed them to review all the absentee ballots”. “That’s the process they are going through now”.

Still trailing his Democratic challenger by about 5,000 votes, Gov.

The McCrory campaign protest seeks to have the 11 county boards of elections conduct “a full scale investigation into these absentee ballots and review all witness signatures on these absentee ballot envelopes to look for evidence of obvious ballot harvesting”. “Governor-elect Roy Cooper has won this election, and we’re all ready for him to restore the reputation of this great state”, said HRC President Chad Griffin in a press release. Let’s let them sort it out without the questionable assistance of partisan screaming. The County did not cite any election protests, only the DMV issue that is affecting counties throughout the state.

She said the four voters in question can be represented by an attorney. “They aren’t there because of money, they are there because of the cause and the movement, and that is legal”, stated Munn. Until the state advises the counties on what to do, votes can’t be canvased. Campaign attorney Mark Elias said on a conference call Friday the McCrory effort is in “total collapse”.

State law established Friday (Nov. 18) as the date for local certification of election results in the state’s 100 counties.