NC Elections Board Grants GOP Request For Recount In Durham County

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo

By CAITLIN MACNEAL Published DECEMBER 1, 2016, 7:18 AM EDT

The North Carolina State Board of Elections on Wednesday approved a request for a machine recount of more than 90,000 early vote ballots in Durham County that had to be counted by hand late on Election Day after a machine malfunction.

When the county added the early vote ballots to the tally, Democratic state Attorney General Roy Cooper took the lead over Republican Gov. Pat McCrory in the governor's race, and McCrory's campaign argued that the "irregularities" warranted a recount.

The state elections board voted 3-2 along party lines to approve the recount, with Republican members of the board agreeing that adding more than 90,000 votes late on election night constitutes an "irregularity," according to the News and Observer.

“What harm would it do to scan these votes and count them?” James Baker, a Republican member of the state board said, according to the News and Observer. “It’s not likely to change anything. There was enough of an irregularity to make people wonder.”

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Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/north-carolina-recount-durham-county-mccrory

[Cryptoad]

1. guess they have their,,,

own little special calibrated vote counting machine?,,,,,,hehehe

[ReverendHeretic]

2. Was it Stalin who said, It does not matter who votes. It matters who counts the votes?

We best be careful of who does the counting in North Carolina.

[MBS]

4. " " " n/t

[anamandujano]

3. How much are they charging, $3M plus?

[Renew Deal]

5. There is nothing wrong with verifying the vote

[exboyfil]

6. Can they count the Trump/Clinton votes

at the same time? I would like to see this type of audit everywhere. It seems Republicans are avoiding any type of hand counted audit of voting machine results (see Kansas where the professor has been trying forever to get someone to look). Since we are going in the reverse direction and a Republican wants it, maybe it will happen. So if a large discrepancy showing the Republican being favored by the machine count happens, will be get a carefully audited hand recount of the ballots?

http://americablog.com/2015/08/mathematician-actual-voter-fraud-kansas-republicans.html

[kimbutgar]

7. I wonder if the the ballots have been fixed to get the result McCory wants?

I can see somebody taking out Cooper votes and replacing them with McCory ones.

[Equinox Moon]

8. Hopefully the results will be in Cooper's favor and settle this.

North Carolina needs the balance of a democrat Governor. That state has been overrun by republicans with horrible intentions. I will be watching this one unfold and cheering for Cooper.

[subterranean]

9. You mean Cooper, don't you?

McCrory is the incumbent Republican.

[Equinox Moon]

10. Got it. Thanks!

[Coolest Ranger]

11. Pat

I hate to burst your bubble but Durham is a heavily democratic county and they always vote democratic. i know I have family in Durham

[mnhtnbb]

12. What is troubling here is that the Board approved a MACHINE recount

and the reason McCrory and Repubs are so ticked off is that a HAND count was done
the night of the election for several precincts in Durham because the MACHINE count
was not accurately reading the cards. That's why it took so long. Election officials--with 2 Repubs
for every Dem--tallied the precincts by HAND where the machines weren't working before submitting the results.

There was no irregularity. If anything, there was deliberate care taken to make sure the votes were accurately counted
when the machines/cards failed.

Uh, hello. Anybody?

[DAMANgoldberg]

13. McCrory is toast otherwise.

1. He has no political future beyond NC, and didn't hitch his wagon to Trump like Pence did, who also had no political future beyond IN. He is trying to remain power through dictatorial ways.



2. Durham County is major D, the board of elections is R, they did the right thing, but were overruled at the state level because Art Pope wants his puppet to remain in power. This will not ultimately stand, and Cooper will be Governor.



3. As a Charlotte resident, the main problem I have with #HB2 isn't the bathroom law, I could care less about that. It took away local government power because the state may not like what the cities are doing. The current governor decided that he wanted control of Charlotte Douglas International Airport, which has been a city function and was so under his mayorship of the past decade or so. Someone important to him wanted toll lanes on I-77 north of here, which the locals don't want. He has a negative "hard-on" for the current Charlotte mayor Jennifer Roberts; it must be personal and is long-standing.



4. He was instrumental in the forced building of what is now the Spectrum Center downtown where the Charlotte Hornets played, but another local R Lynn Wheeler, took the political fall for the mess.

sources: (links may not always work)

List Item 1: Observation, no written basis for comment.

List Item 2: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/in-nc-conservative-donor-art-pope-sits-at-heart-of-government-he-helped-transform/2014/07/19/eece18ec-0d22-11e4-b8e5-d0de80767fc2_story.html?utm_term=.a965cf681d1f

List Item 3: http://www.wbtv.com/story/31671640/nc-professor-explains-hb2-beyond-bathrooms

List Item 4: http://www.bizjournals.com/charlotte/print-edition/2010/10/22/who-paid-price-for-arena-vote.html