WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (Reuters) – North Carolina’s gubernatorial race was undecided 10 days after the Nov. 8 vote and new allegations by the Republican incumbent’s campaign about felons and dead people casting ballots could leave the outcome in limbo for weeks.
Republican Governor Pat McCrory, trailing Democratic challenger Roy Cooper by about 6,300 votes according to the state elections website Friday afternoon, has not conceded. Under state law, Friday was the deadline for counties to certify their results.
But challenges over the validity of hundreds of votes and reviews of provisional ballots were expected to delay the reports from many, if not all, of the state’s 100 counties, elections officials said.
The uncertainty has been punctuated this week by a war of words, with McCrory’s campaign accusing Cooper of being lax on voter fraud and Cooper’s campaign calling the incumbent dishonest and desperate.
“It is unfortunate to see that rather than accepting the results, Pat McCrory is going to go down by besmirching Republican election officials (and) by impugning voters,” Marc Elias, a lawyer for the Cooper campaign, said in a call with reporters on Friday.
McCrory’s campaign, however, argues it is following the legal process to ensure all legitimate votes are counted.
Protests being filed by registered voters in some 50 counties argue that up to 200 ballots should be thrown out because they were cast under the names of dead people or by felons or individuals who voted more than once, according to the campaign. Â more
Illegal voting should rank right along with criminal battery. Not less than five years in jail for first offense.
And revoke their ability to vote, for life!
I watch the local news on WLOS out of Asheville, NC. During the campaign, there were constant ads on the governor’s race and the news did plenty of segments on the race. Now that the communists (democrats) have had apparently valid charges of voter fraud alleged against them, all of a sudden (very mysteriously) the local news mentions nothing about the race anymore.
Crooks (democRats) will be crooks (democRats). 🙄
I hope the new AG comes down like a ton of bricks on voter fraud. This is bullshit, it’s been going on way too long and can be easily stopped.
“And revoke their ability to vote, for life!”
What about after they die?
If Trump CLOSES the borders to illegal immigrants and PROSECUTES voter fraud,
he could spend the next 4 years grabby pu–y and doing NOTHING else
and he will be the best President we’ve had in the last 80 years.
Dead felons have rights, too, you know!
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Vietvet – they sure do. And of course women who have frozen their ex-husbands’ sperm can impregnate themselves and sue the dead ex’s estate for support. Gee, just when you thought it was safe to die!