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There May Not Be A Winner In North Carolinas Governor Race Until After Thanksgiving
Source: Huffington Post
There May Not Be A Winner In North Carolina’s Governor Race Until After Thanksgiving
Gov. Pat McCrory’s campaign is concerned about early votes
tallied in heavily Democratic Durham County.
11/14/2016 02:05 pm ET
Julia Craven
Reporter, The Huffington Post
One of the most tightly fought gubernatorial races in the U.S. still doesn’t have a clear winner.
Early Wednesday morning, North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper (D) declared victory over Gov. Pat McCrory (R), the embattled incumbent who has signed into law some of the most retrograde legislation in the country since his term began in 2013.
But McCrory refused to concede, saying the race was too close to call. Cooper was leading by slightly more than 4,300 votes on Wednesday. As of Friday, the state attorney general was ahead by more than 4,900 votes.
McCrory initially said the outcome of the race wouldn’t be clear until Nov. 18, once provisional and absentee ballots had been counted. But now it seems an answer might not be available until after Thanksgiving.
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Gov. Pat McCrory’s campaign is concerned about early votes
tallied in heavily Democratic Durham County.
11/14/2016 02:05 pm ET
Julia Craven
Reporter, The Huffington Post
One of the most tightly fought gubernatorial races in the U.S. still doesn’t have a clear winner.
Early Wednesday morning, North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper (D) declared victory over Gov. Pat McCrory (R), the embattled incumbent who has signed into law some of the most retrograde legislation in the country since his term began in 2013.
But McCrory refused to concede, saying the race was too close to call. Cooper was leading by slightly more than 4,300 votes on Wednesday. As of Friday, the state attorney general was ahead by more than 4,900 votes.
McCrory initially said the outcome of the race wouldn’t be clear until Nov. 18, once provisional and absentee ballots had been counted. But now it seems an answer might not be available until after Thanksgiving.
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Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/north-carolina-governor-race_us_5829ff20e4b060adb56f7cb1
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Source: WRAL
Could NC lawmakers choose the next governor?
Posted 11:44 a.m. yesterday
Updated 6:55 p.m. today
By Mark Binker and Laura Leslie
RALEIGH, N.C. — It may be an outside possibility, but the ghosts of a contested election for school superintendent in 2004 could haunt this year's gubernatorial race, allowing the Republican-led legislature to settle the contest between Republican Gov. Pat McCrory and Democrat Roy Cooper, the state's attorney general.
Over the weekend, several political operatives and others with interest in the election began circulating a 2007 article by Robert Joyce of the University of North Carolina School of Government. That article recapped the 2004 contest between June Atkinson, a Democrat, and Bill Fletcher, a Republican, and sketched out the process that eventually allowed the General Assembly to decide the race.
The question now becomes whether the same process, created by a legislature controlled by Democrats, could be used to put the governor's race in the hands of Republican lawmakers.
"You've got to have some legitimate grounds for saying you actually won the race," former state Supreme Court Justice Bob Orr said Monday when asked if McCrory had a path to make such an appeal.
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Posted 11:44 a.m. yesterday
Updated 6:55 p.m. today
By Mark Binker and Laura Leslie
RALEIGH, N.C. — It may be an outside possibility, but the ghosts of a contested election for school superintendent in 2004 could haunt this year's gubernatorial race, allowing the Republican-led legislature to settle the contest between Republican Gov. Pat McCrory and Democrat Roy Cooper, the state's attorney general.
Over the weekend, several political operatives and others with interest in the election began circulating a 2007 article by Robert Joyce of the University of North Carolina School of Government. That article recapped the 2004 contest between June Atkinson, a Democrat, and Bill Fletcher, a Republican, and sketched out the process that eventually allowed the General Assembly to decide the race.
The question now becomes whether the same process, created by a legislature controlled by Democrats, could be used to put the governor's race in the hands of Republican lawmakers.
"You've got to have some legitimate grounds for saying you actually won the race," former state Supreme Court Justice Bob Orr said Monday when asked if McCrory had a path to make such an appeal.
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Read more: http://www.wral.com/could-nc-lawmakers-choose-the-next-governor-/16234656/
