North Carolina governor’s race remains undecided

The removed votes came from two people who died before Election Day and another recently convicted of a felony. “The fact is, more North Carolinians voted for Roy Cooper than voted for Pat McCrory, and did so by a close but a significant margin”.

In a story November 17 about the contested North Carolina governor’s race The Associated Press incorrectly identified the state’s motor vehicle agency. The first of those counties that began deliberating those protests on Friday overwhelmingly rejected them. 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.

“On the other hand, there’s a lot of folks in the community who don’t understand why Durham always needs to be the one that recounts its votes”, Brian said.

A DMV official said the agency provided information related to requests covering more than 8,000 driver’s license numbers.

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.

Marc Elias told reporters Friday that trailing Republican Gov. McCrory’s camp says additional ballot protests are expected as additional cases are discovered.

“A massive voting fraud scheme has been uncovered in Bladen County”, the McCrory campaign said in a recent fundraising email. “It’s unfortunate to see that rather than accepting election results, Pat McCrory is going to go down by besmirching Republican election officials and the voters of North Carolina”. Staff recommendations must then be approved or amended by local boards of election before the eligible votes are counted. The party that holds the governor’s seat controls the state Board of Elections and the local boards of elections in every one of North Carolina’s 100 counties. The point of these complaints is not to find actual votes for McCrory that would swing the election his way.

Regardless of whether there is a recount, Stark has said he doesn’t expect any significant changes that would influence the governor’s race. A Superior Court Judge was recently quoted as saying, “Durham historically hasn’t figured out how to carry out an election properly”.

The state board of elections confirmed with FoxNews.com that it is investigating the matter and provided a copy of the complaint filed by McCrae Dowless, the victor of the local Bladen County election. But the McCrory-Cooper race still likely has twists ahead since thousands of absentee ballots favoring Republicans – and provisional ballots that favor Democrats – have yet to be counted, Cohen said.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) – All the counting was supposed to be all but over by Friday, but North Carolina’s too-close-to-call governor’s race remains nowhere near done, the State Board of Elections said Thursday. “The McCrory campaign gets more desperate in their attempts to undermine the results of this election”, Cooper campaign manager Trey Nix said.

Most of the questions raised by the McCrory campaign center around voters – many of them African American – who said they registered at the Division of Motor Vehicles and public assistance offices, but whose names did not appear on voter rolls on election day. And in Durham, an evidentiary hearing takes place to determine if paper ballots should be recounted, following a computer glitch.