Provisional ballots mishandled in Durham

[unc70]

Source: WRAL

RALEIGH, N.C. — The Durham County Board of Elections mishandled roughly 1,900 provisional ballots during the March primary, and as a result, more than 1,000 votes that should have been counted will likely be thrown out, according to state elections officials. 1

North Carolina State Board of Elections officials discovered the problem in April during an audit of primary results. While it's unclear exactly what led to the problems, it is clear that some number of ballots are missing, ballots that should not have counted may have been counted, some ballots may have been counted twice and the ballots in question have been handled in such a way that elections officials can no longer sort the ones that should count from those that shouldn't.


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No idea what was going on here. It happened across parties. Current claim is that these ballots don't affect any races. I'm not convinced yet.

[hrmjustin]

1. It doesn't effect the presidential race but i don't know about local races.

This is disgraceful.

[unc70]

2. It probably doesn't, but at margins could

Not likely, but would be possible that it could affect who received a single delegate. Would require that the percentages be really close to one of the breakpoints for delegate allocations.

[hrmjustin]

6. Based on the results of the county I would say not on the Dem side.

Hillary carried the county about 35,000 to 25,000.

The gop side was closer with Cruz taking the countty by about 2,000 votes.

[unc70]

7. It would not have been done by county

It would have been at the state level in NC. I seriously doubt this was the case, but in theory it could happen.

[valerief]

3. If a U.S. election isn't corrupt, it isn't a U.S. election. nt

[unc70]

4. Or just incompetent

[valerief]

5. No. The theft is deliberate. nt