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    Voter fraud complaints emerge in tight NC gov race

    Voter fraud complaints emerge in tight NC gov race

    By Joseph Weber
    Published November 16, 2016 FoxNews.com

    The campaign for North Carolina GOP Gov. Patrick McCrory, whose reelection bid remains too close to call, is seizing on reports of potential voter fraud to raise questions about the integrity of last week's election.

    McCrory trails by as many as 5,000 votes against Democratic challenger Roy Cooper -- eight days after the polls closed.


    The fraud concerns emerged in a separate local election in Bladen County, where officials have acknowledged “overtly similar” handwriting on several hundred absentee ballots.


    While a formal complaint was filed by the winner of that local supervisor race, the McCrory campaign alleges some evidence suggests a group associated with the state Democratic Party may have paid people to cast votes for a write-in Democrat in that race and every other Democrat on the ballot, including Cooper.


    Campaign official Ricky Diaz on Wednesday cited evidence suggesting potentially similar situations in other counties, though he declined to say whether this suggests voter fraud is widespread enough to impact the gubernatorial election.


    “It warrants scrutiny,” he said. “We fully expect it will be looked at.”


    McCrory has faced political headwinds since July, when he signed legislation requiring transgender people to use restrooms in public buildings that are associated with their birth gender, not the gender to which they identify. The passage of the so-called “bathroom bill” resulted in a country-wide backlash, including the NBA moving its all-star game in February.


    The fresh fraud complaints, while focused on Bladen County, could serve to stoke doubts about the ballot-counting statewide.


    County election officials sent a letter Nov. 2 to state election officials about finding the similarities in several handwritten ballots.


    The letter raised the possibility the similar handwriting could be the result of people legally assisting voters in filling out ballots. However, there was no accompanying documentation to verify this.


    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 winner of the local Bladen County election.


    His 53-page complaint argued there are at least 250 questionable ballots connected to five people who were ballot “witnesses” and paid by the Bladen County Improvement Association PAC.


    The letter from the county election board to the state election board acknowledges handwriting on the questionable ballots and their envelopes is similar to those of two people cited by Dowless, who ran as an unaffiliated candidate.


    “A massive voting fraud scheme has been uncovered in Bladen County,” the McCrory campaign said in a recent fundraising email.


    The state Democratic Party told the News & Observer newspaper that McCrory’s campaign is exaggerating the issue.


    “As usual, these claims from the McCrory campaign are over the top and completely false,” said Kimberly Reynolds, the group’s executive director. “The complaint in question does not even deal with a Democrat.”


    The Cooper campaign told the newspaper the Bladen County case is “isolated” and it fully supports the investigation.

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    Oh those voters should be thrown out. Maybe McCrory will still win? I sure hope so. I don't understand why North Carolina would have turned on him, he's done a great job seems to me.
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    North Carolina governor's race still undecided with thousands of votes to be finalized

    Nigel Duara Contact Reporter

    Five thousand votes, about the population of a half-filled high school football stadium, separate the two candidates for governor in North Carolina in a race that promises to stretch well past Thanksgiving.

    County election board workers overwhelmed with thousands of absentee ballots had been due to finish a final canvass this week, but many said Friday they were still unable to finalize thousands of ballots amid legal challenges over voter rolls and allegations of voter fraud.


    Before all the votes are counted, election officials must decide the eligibility of more than 60,000 provisional ballots and the validity of thousands of challenged votes. They must also count absentee ballots postmarked by election day, along with military and overseas ballots, which were accepted through Thursday.

    In results released Thursday evening, Republican incumbent Pat McCrory trailed Democratic Atty. Gen. Roy Cooper by 5,000 votes. Even after the ballots are judged and tallied, the race could end up in court.


    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.


    How an act of political violence in North Carolina led to something rare — a bipartisan response

    An unknown number of such voters were permitted to cast provisional ballots. State elections officials on Friday were still checking each provisional vote cast to determine its eligibility.

    Proving such a vote ineligible is difficult. The state board must either provide a hard copy of a DMV form showing that the voter declined to register, or prove that the voter is otherwise ineligible, in cases such as a felon casting a ballot.

    Otherwise, the ballot is automatically counted.


    The rush to validate such votes comes after a late October decision by U.S. District Judge Loretta Biggs ordering the state to comply with the National Voter Registration Act and count the ballots of people who registered at a government office.


    State elections board spokesman Patrick Gannon told The Times that the elections board on Friday would not finish checking the names of DMV-registered voters before the weekend.


    “This is the first time this data needs to be analyzed,” Gannon said.


    McCrory’s campaign filed complaints in more than half of North Carolina’s 100 counties, alleging in some cases that votes were cast by convicted felons, repeat voters or the dead.

    More than 10 ballot complaints centered on a North Carolina Democratic Party-funded effort to assist voters with filling out ballots. Some of the ballots appeared to be filled in by a volunteer who did not fill out a required disclosure form indicating the voter received help.


    “Unfortunately, we may also have uncovered the real reason Roy Cooper fought so hard against efforts to prevent voter fraud as attorney general,” jabbed Russell Peck, McCrory’s campaign manager.


    The Cooper campaign struck back. “The McCrory campaign gets more desperate in their attempts to undermine the results of this election,” Cooper campaign manager Trey Nix said. “It is clear that Gov. McCrory has no path to victory, and that Cooper’s margin of victory will only grow stronger as final vote totals continue to come in.”


    All 100 county election boards informed the state that they would need to postpone completion of their vote canvass, which could set off a series of delays in announcing a winner, typically finalized in early December.


    On Friday, two counties denied protests from Republicans. In Durham County, the elections board denied a request for a hand count of votes, and Halifax County found “no probable cause” for complaints of voters casting ballots in more than one state.


    In a closely divided swing state which Donald Trump won with slightly over 50% of the vote and President Obama lost in 2012 by 2 percentage points, the McCrory campaign has also voiced suspicions about 90,000 votes delivered late on election night from heavily Democratic Durham County.


    The North Carolina NAACP pledged to push back with representatives at every board meeting.


    “Even now, we must still safeguard the fundamental right to vote and ensure that post-election procedures are properly executed,” the group said in a statement on Thursday.


    The two candidates have been at odds over a bill McCrory supported that limited choices in bathrooms, widely seen as a bill targeting transgender people. Cooper refused to defend the bill in court.


    If the eventual victor claims a margin of fewer than 10,000 votes, the runner-up can demand a recount.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Judy View Post
    Oh those voters should be thrown out. Maybe McCrory will still win? I sure hope so. I don't understand why North Carolina would have turned on him, he's done a great job seems to me.
    He has done an excellent job. Whether it's true or not I don't know, but Democrat supporters in the state would have us believe this is all about HB2.

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    That's a shame, because that really wasn't or shouldn't have been a defining issue in an election that affects an entire state of people. That issue was being resolved through the courts where it should have been settled.
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    Democrat's Lead Widens in North Carolina Governor's Race



    NOVEMBER 20, 2016, 11:54 AM EST

    Voter suppression efforts in North Carolina have made a mess of determining who won.


    Hardly anyone in North Carolina is willing to guess when their excruciatingly close governor’s race will be resolved. A Friday deadline came and went with Democratic Attorney General Roy Cooper’s unofficial advantage growing to about 6,600 votes over Republican Gov. Pat McCrory, from nearly 4.7 million cast.

    McCrory is fighting for his political life in a battleground state that Donald Trump and Republican Sen. Richard Burr won by relatively comfortable margins.


    After endless legal battles over how, when and where people can vote,
    they’re fighting now over whether to count 60,000 provisional ballots and thousands more absentee ballots that have remained sealed since Election Day.

    Still more delays are in store as McCrory’s campaign supports allegations of hard-knuckled fraud lodged by voters in more than half the state’s 100 counties.

    If Cooper’s margin remains below 10,000 votes, McCrory can call for a statewide recount, and with the possibility of other legal challenges and conceivably even legislative intervention to decide a contested result, few outside Cooper’s campaign are ready to put a date on the naming of the next governor.


    “This is unprecedented,” said Brad Crone, a longtime Democratic consultant and North Carolina history buff. “This is new waters that we’re sailing into.”


    The two Republicans and one Democrat on each county’s elections board have been meeting this week deciding whether to toss out or unseal and count each of the remaining ballots.


    The largest challenge was unanimously dismissed Friday by the board in heavily Democratic Durham County, where a handful of computer cards got overloaded with ballots cast by early voters, forcing officials to hand-count 94,000 votes from the paper record. A Republican lawyer questioned the tally’s accuracy, but the board’s Republican chairman, William Brian Jr., said all evidence points to a true count.


    The state also must comply with a federal judge’s order to count the votes of people who said they registered since last year at Division of Motor Vehicles offices, even though their names didn’t appear on the voting rolls, unless the agency can prove they declared in writing that they did not want to register.

    The DMV said Friday that it has delivered information connected to about 8,100 driver’s license numbers.

    The information will be used to decide whether ballots should be counted or thrown out.


    McCrory, a former Charlotte mayor, won his first race for governor by more than 500,000 votes four years ago, but he’s been pilloried by Democrats and urban voters for signing a law that limits LGBT rights and tells transgender people which bathrooms to use.


    The state’s electorate also witnessed McCrory’s defense of the GOP’s 2013 law that required voters to have photo identification to vote in person, reduced the number of days of early voting Democrats favor and eliminated same-day registration for early voters.

    The law was struck down in July by the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.


    McCrory’s campaign said, without offering detailed proof, that the fraud being challenged in more than 50 counties includes people voting more than once and ballots cast by dead people and convicted felons.


    And in rural Bladen County, a winning candidate claimed hundreds of mail-in ballots were forged by get-out-the-vote workers for an organization that received contributions from Democrats. The Bladen challenge, however, doesn’t involve enough votes by itself to decide the governor’s race.


    McCrory has said little about the race since election night, when he told Republicans “the election is not over” and said “we’re going to make sure every vote counts in North Carolina.”


    Instead, he’s held news conferences on wildfires in North Carolina’s western mountains and attended a meeting Friday on the recovery after Hurricane Matthew. McCrory’s campaign was significantly outspent, but he benefited from his frequent television appearances discussing the hurricane’s destruction.


    Cooper declared himself the winner on election night but has kept a low profile since then, but his staff and legal team said McCrory’s fraud allegations are a sign of desperation.


    “Voters chose a new governor; it’s time for the McCrory campaign to accept it,” said Cooper’s campaign spokesman Ford Porter, who didn’t respond to the AP’s request to speak with Cooper on Friday.


    McCrory’s campaign also declined an interview, offering instead his top campaign strategist, Chris LaCivita, who defended the campaign’s effort to challenge any irregularities.


    “You just can’t this dream this up,” LaCivita said. “Of course, we’re going to pursue challenges and pursue leads.”


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    Marc Elias, a Washington-based attorney helping Cooper’s campaign, said the number of allegedly fraudulent ballots McCrory’s side has challenged isn’t enough to change the lead, even if they were thrown out, so it’s just a matter of time before Cooper’s victory is confirmed.

    “There is nothing that Gov. McCrory or his legal team will be able to do to undo what is just basic math,” Elias told reporters on Friday. “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.”


    McCrory campaign spokesman Ricky Diaz countered that Cooper’s side is making “presumptuous statements” at a time when counties have postponed their final tabulations.


    Cooper is relying on “piecemeal results from a handful of Democrat-leaning counties in order to deflect attention away from serious voter fraud concerns that are emerging across the state,” Diaz said in a statement.

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    N.C. Gov. McCrory cries voter fraud amid calls to concede

    Caitlin Dickson Breaking News Reporter
    Yahoo News November 21, 2016
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    North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory, with wife, Ann, tells supporters that he will contest his loss to Democratic challenger Roy Cooper. (Photo: Jonathan Drake/Reuters)
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    Two weeks after Democrat Roy Cooper claimed a narrow victory in North Carolina’s gubernatorial race, the Republican incumbent governor Pat McCrory continues to claim the election was rigged amid calls for him to concede.


    “I understand it’s hard to lose,” said State Rep. Tricia Cotham of Mecklenberg on Monday. “McCrory needs to be a statesman and do what the voters wanted and concede this race.”


    According to the Charlotte Observer, Cotham was among several Democratic lawmakers in the state who have joined together in urging McCrory to accept defeat. As of Monday, McCrory trailed his Democratic opponent by more than 6,800 votes.


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    Since November 9, McCrory’s reelection campaign has filed 52 complaints alleging voter fraud in more than half of North Carolina’s 100 counties. After several county election boards dismissed his demands for a hand recount of the votes last week, McCrory turned to the GOP-led state Board of Elections, which agreed to take over the review of his complaint in just one county. The remainder, the board decided during an emergency meeting Sunday, must first be reviewed by the county election boards (also Republican-run) before they can be appealed at the state level.

    McCrory became the subject of both state and nationwide scrutiny for his support of a controversial piece of legislation that required transgender people to use the restrooms that correspond with their biological sex, rather than gender identity. The measure, often referred to as the “Bathroom Bill,” also limited protections for LGBT people under state antidiscrimination law and forbid the passage of local measures that seek to offer additional protection.


    A number of major businesses, entertainers and athletic organizations such as the NBA and NCAA boycotted North Carolina after McCrory signed the bill, which U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch ultimately deemed in violation federal civil rights legislation.


    “It’s clear that voters wanted to put an end to Gov. McCrory’s destructive and discriminatory policies that continually damaged this great state’s reputation,” Mark Jewell, president of the North Carolina Association of Educators, said in a joint statement issued by the NCAE and the State Employees Association of North Carolina (SEANC) Monday. “He should respect the democratic process and concede immediately. Our state deserves better than this.”

    SEANC President Stanley Drewery agreed, stating, “It is irresponsible for McCrory to allow his ego to obstruct the transition towards North Carolina’s future with Roy Cooper as governor.”

    Meanwhile, despite the delayed declaration of an official vote tally, Democrat Roy Cooper has continued to move forward with his plans to take over the governor’s office in January. On Monday, Cooper announced the selection of several transition team leaders.


    “It’s 40 days until I take the oath of office,” Cooper said in a press release. “It would be irresponsible to wait any longer to tackle the issues we campaigned on across the state.”


    When contacted for comment on Cooper’s transition team as well as the calls for McCrory to concede, McCrory campaign spokesman Ricky Diaz referred Yahoo News to a statement issued earlier Monday in which he called Cooper “desperate” and doubled down on vote-fraud claims.


    “Why is Roy Cooper so insistent on circumventing the electoral process and counting the votes of dead people and felons?” read the statement by Diaz. “It may be because he needs those fraudulent votes to count in order to win. Instead of insulting North Carolina voters, we intend to let the process work as it should to ensure that every legal vote is counted properly.”

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    Such a shame. Very disappointing. I think McCrory should order a recount if the final tally is close enough to warrant one.
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