North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory announced 50 new election complaints Thursday in his desperate bid to make up the 5,000 some votes by which he's still trailing Democrat Roy Cooper. McCrory's campaign said those complaints would "void anywhere between 100 to 200 ballots cast by suspected felons, dead people and double voters." McCrory's gonna need to find a lot more dead voters to make up the difference at this point, but he's happily fingering Cooper as responsible. Caitlin MacNeal writes:
"Now we know why Roy Cooper fought so hard against voter ID and other efforts to combat voter fraud as attorney general,” Russell Peck, McCrory’s campaign manager, said in a statement. “With each passing day, we discover more and more cases of voting fraud and irregularities. [...]
Cooper's campaign charged on Thursday that McCrory was trying to undermine the election results.
"Governor McCrory lost in last week’s election. But while Roy Cooper’s margin of victory has continued to grow, the McCrory Administration is delaying certification of these results with a failure to comply with the State Board of Elections’ deadline. This is unacceptable. Both the McCrory campaign and Administration are seeking to undermine the results of an election they lost."
McCrory is promising more complaints. Cooper's team, meanwhile, said during a Friday phone call with reporters that his lead had grown to 7,448 votes, but that wasn’t an official count.
Voting rights activists are understandably ticked off that McCrory, who signed legislation deliberately designed to suppress the black vote, is now fighting the outcome of the election.