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Recount To Determine Seat On NC Supreme Court

Courtesy of Campaigns

The North Carolina Board of Elections says there will be a recount in a race for State Supreme Court.

North Carolina law says a recount may be requested in a statewide race when the vote count separates the candidates by less than .5 percent.

Sitting Justice Cheri Beasley leads her opponent, Winston-Salem based lawyer Mike Robinson, by just 5,400 votes. Nearly 2.5 million ballots were cast in the contest. 

Monday, Robinson submitted the necessary request to the state to start a recount.

The race between Robinson and Beasley came to prominence just 10 days before the election, when Justice For All NC, a conservative outside expenditure group, spent nearly $260,000 running ads supporting Robinson, also a conservative.

Now each county will re-tally the votes in that race. By law, the recount will be finished by Tuesday, November 25th.

Tom Bullock decided to trade the khaki clad masses and traffic of Washington DC for Charlotte in 2014. Before joining WFAE, Tom spent 15 years working for NPR. Over that time he served as everything from an intern to senior producer of NPR’s Election Unit. Tom also spent five years as the senior producer of NPR’s Foreign Desk where he produced and reported from Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Haiti, Egypt, Libya, Lebanon among others. Tom is looking forward to finally convincing his young daughter, Charlotte, that her new hometown was not, in fact, named after her.