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Tue Nov 29, 2016, 01:41 PM Nov 2016

NC GOP: Durham recount could resolve governors election within days

After the State Board of Elections effectively rejected Republican protests about ineligible voters, Durham County is the last point of contention in the unresolved governor’s race – and the N.C. Republican Party said Tuesday that a recount there could resolve the election within days.

“We have an opportunity to bring the 2016 election to a close within the next few days,” NC GOP executive director Dallas Woodhouse said at a news conference Tuesday morning. “Durham County is going to recount its votes, or the entire state will if that is an option.”

Woodhouse also rejected speculation that the state legislature might intervene and use its power to decide the governor’s race. “That will never happen,” he said, adding that suggestions to the contrary are “demagoguery at the highest order.”

“They would never award the election to somebody who didn’t have the most votes.”

Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/election/article117691708.html

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