Board of Elections Supervisor Kristin Scott said this morning the protests of John Espenshade and C.E. McCollum did not have sufficient documentation to show probable cause to grant an official hearing.
The two men, Espenshade, a Littleton resident, and McCollum, a local minister, do have the right to appeal to the state Board of Elections. “I'm not sure if that's going to happen. No one indicated they would,” Scott said of an appeal.
The parties who protested the primary have 24 hours to appeal the local board's decision to the state following the signing of the written order.
The Halifax County Black Caucus said in a statement Tuesday it supported the filed protests..
Espenshade and McCollum alleged that, among other things, people were given the wrong ballots at several polling places and that errors occurred in over 80 percent of the precincts.
