McCrory officially requests statewide recount in gubernatorial race

[Sunriser13]

Source: WRAL

Raleigh, N.C. As counties across the state continue to tally provisional ballots, Gov. Pat McCrory on Tuesday formally requested a statewide recount in his contested gubernatorial race with Attorney General Roy Cooper.

McCrory's campaign said the recount was filed to "meet the original date statutorily specified, although the formal recount will not occur until after the county boards of election certify their results."

"With many outstanding votes yet to be counted for the first time, legal challenges, ballot protests and voter fraud allegations, we must keep open the ability to allow the established recount process to ensure every legal vote is counted properly," Russell Peck, McCrory's campaign manager, said in a statement.

McCrory can legally request a recount because the vote difference between him and Cooper is fewer than 10,000 votes.



Read more: http://www.wral.com/mccrory-officially-requests-statewide-recount-in-gubernatorial-race/16267084/

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McCrory's still trying desperately to take it - no telling when we'll know the official results.

More from the N&O : McCrory requests recount of contested NC election
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/politics-columns-blogs/under-the-dome/article116432228.html

Might as well add this gem for good measure : Civitas suit: Verify addresses on all one-stop votes
http://www.wral.com/-civitas-sues-over-same-day-registrations/16266320/

Seems like every conservative effort is being made to keep the state...




Editing to add WTVD coverage, which shows more about this mess...
Protests, procedural and physical, mark governor's race
http://abc11.com/politics/protests-procedural-and-physical-mark-governors-race/1619939/

[msongs]

1. compared to democrats who are behind by small margins..... nt

[DFW]

2. I hope his recount covers every race in the state

That way, maybe we'll get a Democratic Senator from NC as well as a Democratic governor, and the state's electoral votes go to Hillary.

[melm00se]

4. that falls into the "wishful thinking" category

McCrory/Cooper vote delta: ~6000 votes
Clinton/Trump vote delta: ~200,000 votes
Ross/Burr vote delta: ~260,000 votes

It is unlikely that a recount (unless there were significant and obvious shenanigans) will reverse the governor's race. It is damn near impossible a recount to reverse a 200K+ vote delta.

[DFW]

5. Well, this IS America, and they ARE Republicans

So, I can't dismiss significant and obvious shenanigans out of hand.

[bucolic_frolic]

3. Cooper faces a difficult term against total veto-proof hardliners

The poor guy, why would he want this job

I suppose a governor does have jawboning power

[cstanleytech]

6. Wouldnt it be funny if there was a recount and suddenly an extra 200,000 votes for Hillary appeared?

[MiniMe]

7. Would bee nice, but if they are recounting for the governor my guess is that they won't count the

Presidential votes

[cstanleytech]

8. Can they really cherry pick a statewide recount though like that?

[MiniMe]

9. I think they just wouldn't bother, unless Hillary contests it too

[cstanleytech]

10. But it still doesnt make much sense because you would think that if they were going to do

a recount that they would check all the votes to make sure no other major errors got through.

[MiniMe]

11. There you go, thinking all logical and stuff

Do you remember the recount they did in Florida in 2000 while they were counting votes? The only thing they checked was the Presidential vote.

Or the recount in Minnesota in 2008. The only thing they checked than was the Senate vote.

If they recount for the governor, the only thing they will recount is governor