McCrory Claims Widespread Fraud As He Fights To Close Gap In NC Guv's Race

Still trailing his Democratic challenger by about 5,000 votes, Gov. Pat McCrory (R) on Thursday announced 50 new elections complaints alleging that votes were cast by people who were either dead, convicted felons, or had already voted.

The ballot-counting in the hard-fought race is now in its second week, with ballot challenges and provisional ballot tabulating as McCrory tries to make up the gap on Democratic state Attorney General Roy Cooper.

"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. We intend to make sure that every vote is properly counted and serious voter fraud concerns are addressed before the results of the election can be determined.”

The campaign said that the complaints were filed by registered voters, asking for county elections boards "to void anywhere between 100 to 200 ballots cast by suspected felons, dead people and double voters." With McCrory trailing Cooper by about 5,000 votes, it does not appear that the complaints announced by the McCrory campaign Thursday could swing the election in his favor.

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