The State Board of Elections voted Tuesday to instruct county elections boards to continue counting ballots to determine winners in as many races as possible. But the order includes flagging and forwarding ballots to the state board if they appear to be illegal and were cast in close statewide elections in which the outcome might...
The partisan majorities on five boards of county commissioners flipped during the Nov. 8 general election, pending certification of the vote. Republicans picked up majorities in three counties — Alleghany, Jackson, and Nash — that previously had Democratic majorities. Democrats flipped two county boards — Montgomery and Watauga — from Republican control. Republicans now hold...
In an emergency meeting Sunday afternoon, the State Board of Elections voted to meet Tuesday at 10 a.m. to establish legal guidelines for counties to resolve complaints about ballot challenges in the Nov. 8 election. The board, with three Republican and two Democratic members, rejected a request from GOP Gov. Pat McCrory’s re-election committee to...
The State Board of Elections has called an emergency meeting for 4 p.m. today to consider a request from the McCrory Committee to have the state board assume jurisdiction over all the protests filed at county election boards over the race between incumbent Gov. Pat McCrory and Democratic Attorney General Roy Cooper. Notice and responses here....
The Durham County Board of Elections voted unanimously Friday to reject Durham County attorney Thomas Stark’s challenge that voting machine technical glitches involving 94,000 early vote and Election Day totals justified a recount. Meantime, provisional and absentee votes counted and submitted by county boards to the State Board of Elections added to Democratic Attorney General...
The state Republican Party reports that Chuck Stuber, the GOP nominee for state auditor, is prepared to seek a recount in his race against incumbent Democrat Beth Wood after the votes have been canvassed. Roughly 2,700 votes separate the two candidates of nearly 4.5 million cast pending a statewide ballot canvass. If either Wood or Stuber has a...
By a 2-1 party-line vote that had racial undertones, the Durham County Board of Elections approved a challenge to its vote-tallying process that Thomas Stark, a lawyer and Durham County resident, believes might have been corrupted by software limitations in voting machines that couldn’t accept the volume of votes cast in some precincts. Wednesday’s probable...
If Attorney General Roy Cooper’s election day lead over incumbent Republican Gov. Pat McCrory eventually becomes a victory, the incoming Democrat will face an incredibly difficult challenge in pushing any of his agenda through a GOP-dominated General Assembly, election analysts say. “I think he will be one of the highest paid ribbon-cutters in America,” said Chris...
The problems in Durham County on Election Night have been resolved, but much work remains leading up to the Nov. 18 county canvass and the statewide canvass 11 days later. As things stand, Democratic Attorney General Roy Cooper’s lead over Republican Gov. Pat McCrory amounts to fewer than 5,000 votes. But as Carolina Journal noted...
Democratic Attorney General Roy Cooper has a lead of roughly 5,000 votes in his attempt to unseat incumbent Republican Gov. Pat McCrory, and Cooper was quick to claim victory Tuesday night, telling supporters, “We have won this race.” Not so fast, the governor’s team responded. “Currently, there are tens of thousands of outstanding absentee, military,...
Democratic Attorney General Roy Cooper claims to have won the governor’s race, incumbent Republican Gov. Pat McCrory says votes remain uncounted that could reverse Cooper’s razor-thin margin, and several Council of State races swung from Democratic to GOP control in Tuesday’s historic general election. “We have won this race,” Cooper told his supporters Tuesday night....
