Easy to find flaws in NC chief justice's effort to protest election results
Facing defeat if a recount doesn't shift a few hundred votes in her direction, North Carolina Supreme Court Chief Justice Cheri Beasley and her campaign have filed protests in almost every county statewide, alleging that thousands of votes that should have been counted in the recent election were not.
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The protest filed by Beasley and the North Carolina Democratic Party claims that about 2,000 provisional ballots and mailed absentee ballots were wrongly rejected in 90 counties and not counted.
The 76-page affidavit accompanying the protest listed the ballots in question, but it wasn't difficult to find problems with it in our look at just a handful of ballots listed in Wake County.
"I did not know that. To find that out was very disheartening and frustrated," Goins said Wednesday. "I had a conversation with my children, you know, being that I am an African-American woman and how hard we had to fight to vote."
But Goins's ballot, and two others WRAL News found listed in the affidavit as rejected were actually counted, according to Wake County elections director Gary Sims.
WRAL News cross-checked the addresses of six other "Wake County" voters listed in the affidavit with county property tax records. All six actually live at addresses outside Wake County, making them ineligible to vote in Wake County.
The Beasley campaign didn't respond to a request for comment.
Wayne Goodwin, chairman of the state Democratic Party, said the party's data team put together the affidavit, looking for what they believed to be potentially eligible votes.
"I think there needs to be more research, more information looked into, before that information’s given out to someone," she said.
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