North Carolina Republican Gov. Pat McCrory, champion of the country’s
most notorious anti-LGBTQ law,
lost his bid for re-election on Nov. 8—
at last count, by 7,448 votes. Yet nearly two weeks later, McCrory still refuses to concede. Instead, he and his legal team are baselessly alleging that the results were tainted by fraud, petitioning election boards to review the results and determine their validity. McCrory is not so obtuse as to think he can actually overtake his opponent, Democratic Attorney General Roy Cooper, in raw votes. His strategy is more insidious: He seems intent on delaying the formal declaration of a winner—and delegitimizing the voting process—in order to let the Republican-dominated legislature ignore the true result and re-install McCrory as governor for another four years.
Typical cry baby teabaggers.
Despite the utter lack of evidence to support allegations of fraud, McCrory’s team has launched a misinformation campaign to cast a pall of suspicion over the results. His campaign spokesman
asked, “Why is Roy Cooper fighting to count the votes of dead people and felons?” McCrory’s close ally and current state budget director, Andrew T. Heath, also
tweeted that Durham County has 231,000 residents over the age of 18 but 232,000 registered voters, implying fraud. (In reality, Durham’s 2015 voting-age population was
about 235,600, and the county has
only 193,659 active registered voters; its Republican-controlled election board already
unanimously rejected a complaint alleging malfeasance.) Now McCrory’s lawyers are
targeting black American voter outreach groups for purportedly violating minor procedural rules while helping voters fill out absentee ballots. The governor has
falsely accused these groups of conducting a “massive voter fraud scheme.”
And facts do not register with teabaggers.
