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Recount Continues In NC Chief Justice Race

Incumbent Chief Justiec Cheri Beasley (left) and challenger, Justice Paul Newby. Photo courtesy of the North Carolina Judicial Branch.

The razor-thin margin in the race for state Supreme Court Justice has not yet been resolved, and the North Carolina State Board of Elections says the counting will continue for a couple of days.

The state board says there are still almost 60 precincts that need to be reviewed out of 142 recount sites.

Incumbent Democrat Cheri Beasley has picked up 10 votes, while Republican Challenger Paul Newby added 13.

Newby entered the recount with a lead of about 400 votes out of more than 5 million cast.

A review of precincts in Forsyth and Guilford so far has not changed the tally for either candidate, but there are still some Guilford precincts to be counted.

State law allows Beasley to seek a hand-to-eye recount in 3 percent of randomly selected precincts in each of the state's 100 counties.

If the results differ enough from an earlier machine recount, the state board may call for a recount of the entire county.

Paul Garber is a Winston-Salem native and an award-winning reporter who began his journalism career with an internship at The High Point Enterprise in 1993. He has previously worked at The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The News and Record of Greensboro and the Winston-Salem Journal, where he was the newspaper's first full-time multimedia reporter. He won the statewide Media and the Law award in 2000 and has also been recognized for his business, investigative and multimedia reporting. Paul earned a BA from Wake Forest University and has a Master's of Liberal Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University and a Master's of Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lives in Lewisville.

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