North Carolina Gubernatorial Recount: Protests Filed In 11 More Counties Over Fraudulent Absentee Ballots

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SOURCE: TOWNHALL

URL: http://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2016/11/16/nc-gubernatorial-recount-protests-filed-in-11-counties-over-fraudulent-absentee-ballots-n2246993

by Matt Vespa


The North Carolina gubernatorial election between incumbent Republican Gov. Pat McCrory and Attorney General Roy Cooper has triggered a recount, with Cooper ahead by 5,000 votes. Many more ballots are to be counted, but the whole process is fraught with controversy. Cortney wrote earlier today that there could be some funny business with the vote counts in Durham and Bladen counties. Now, McCrory’s campaign site said they’ve filed election protests in 11 more counties:

Formal protests are being filed to challenge potentially fraudulent absentee ballots cast for Roy Cooper and other Democrats in 11 additional counties. These protests follow the discovery of a North Carolina Democrat Party-funded political action committee which appears to have paid individuals to fill out and witness hundreds of fraudulent absentee ballots for Democrats including Roy Cooper in Bladen County.

In addition to funneling money to the Bladen County Improvement Association PAC, the North Carolina Democratic Party simultaneously transferred money to political action committees in these 11 counties. Similar absentee voting and handwriting patterns as in Bladen County have been discovered in at least one of these counties, suggesting these PACs may have been harvesting and witnessing multiple absentee ballots as well.

“It appears that our worst fears have come true and this absentee ballot fraud scheme may run deeper than just Bladen County,” said Russell Peck, Pat McCrory’s campaign manager. “Unfortunately, we may also have uncovered the real reason Roy Cooper fought so hard against efforts to prevent voter fraud as attorney general. These voter fraud concerns must be addressed before the results of the election can be finalized.”

We’ll see what happens, but Jazz Shaw wrote that this could be a very long ordeal.

[TomSea]

This is a good article, I'd like to see McCrory win, shame if he doesn't.

[Frank Cannon]

There's a whole lot of corruptin' goin' on down there.