Appeal on contested votes heard by NC election board

These were thrown out by county election boards, most of which are Republican controlled.

McCrory’s assault on North Carolina’s election results come against a Republican-led elections board that oversaw the election process.

A public-hearing notice is required before the recount can occur.

Counties that have not finished counting are expected to finish this week, but results could take longer if a recount takes place.

The potential for a Durham recount next week is the latest development in the governor’s race.

Cooper leads McCrory statewide by 9,800 votes with a handful of counties yet to complete their counting. He has asked a federal court to delay the final vote count in order to allow the verification process to “run its course”. McCrory announced November 22 his plans to call for a statewide recount.

The State Board of Elections Monday night ordered counties to proceed to canvass and dismiss the election protests filed by Governor Pat McCrory’s campaign.

Malcolm disagreed there was an irregularity and said he knew Durham County’s votes were 4-1 in favor of Cooper.

North Carolina law says a candidate can not take office until the state board has certified the race results. Cooper’s campaign later issued a statement saying his victory would stand up to the recount.

In 2012, Pat McCrory was elected with an 11 percent margin of victory.

Why are votes still being counted?

In citing the lawyer’s request for an expedited hearing, McCrory campaign said in a release Saturday that it will be prepared to withdraw the statewide recount request if “a Durham recount provides the same results as earlier posted”. Yet his baseless tweets that millions illegally voted in California, Virginia and New Hampshire, as well as talk of the dead and felons casting ballots, have revived charges that gave rise to wide-reaching voter ID bills, initiated by mostly Republican-controlled legislatures.

Most outcomes favored Republicans, but notably not the governor’s race.

The state board of elections is working to certify results by the end of next week. “Uncertainty is not enough”, Hamilton said, asking the board to deny Stark’s appeal. But as those votes have been counted, C. McCrory could still seek a statewide recount if he trails by Cooper by 10,000 votes or less.

By comparison, Cooper picked up 16,374 votes in Randolph County compared to 13,194 for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.

McCrory did better among Forsyth absentee voters, with 5,576 votes to 5,398 for Cooper. The majority of those voters in a deep-blue county, located in the heart of the Research Triangle, had cast ballots for Cooper.

To call HB2 a debacle is an understatement – for three quarters of 2016, it was legitimately all we could talk or think about in the progressive circles I work and live in. It will take a look at five early voting sites in the county and one precinct. The provisional ballots had initially been rejected because election officials decided the voter signatures did not match the ones on record.

As of Tuesday, figures on the NC State Board of Elections website shows Cooper holding a lead of over 9,000 votes.

“One candidate was up by 50,000 votes and in the blink of an eye he was behind”, he said.