NC governor calls for recount in reelection race

McCrory is calling for a mandatory recount of the votes in North Carolina’s gubernatorial race. “They have not backed down from the arguments that they made that actually resulted in them getting more votes than their opponent in the election”.

McCrory, a Republican, finds himself trailing Democratic challenger Roy Cooper by about 6,600 votes out of 4.7 million cast, according to unofficial results.

McCrory joined fellow Republican and state auditor candidate Chuck Stuber in the recount request.

This recount was filed to meet the original date specified by the state statute, the campaign said.

Grant Whitney Jr. will preside over a meeting Tuesday where the board will consider additional ground rules for what’s become a stream of challenges to ballots cast for the November 8 election.

Certifying the results without double-checking those voters’ addresses “violates North Carolina law because ballots will be counted without the voter registrations having been verified”, the lawsuit states.

Cooper has already announced the leaders of his transition team, despite McCrory’s refusal to concede the race. In previous court cases, several federal judges have ruled there is little to no evidence of voter fraud in North Carolina.

Of the 4.7 million votes cast, Cooper’s now leading McCrory by around 6,000 votes.

Cooper’s campaign insists his lead is somewhat larger.

The governor’s attorney spoke first in the hearing.

But McCrory’s campaign vowed to continue fighting the results. The lawsuit is part of the uncertainty surrounding the still-undecided governor’s race.

The State Board of Elections voted Sunday to take jurisdiction over investigations into absentee voting irregularities in Bladen County, but not total jurisdiction over every complaint lodged. The court said the law illegally suppressed black votes.

By making claims of voter fraud – which election bodies involved have profusely denied – he may be able to force a vote before his state legislators.

The hearing started promptly at 10 a.m. Tuesday.

Best said there have been no protests filed with the Camden Board of Elections.

Roger Knight, an attorney for Republican Gov.

Cooper, meanwhile, has a chorus of Democrats in the state asking McCrory to concede the loss considering it has been two weeks since the election and Cooper’s narrow lead has grown in that time.

But the state board can not move forward certifying the election results until the final county does so, meaning it will likely be early December before any semblance of a decision is made regarding November’s election. Also at issue are more than 300 ballots that state officials say may have been cast by convicted felons during early voting.