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Former legislator recounts 2022 spoiled‑ballot dispute and urges S.536 to improve documentation
Summary
Former Representative Lenny Mera and Sandra Capo described an incident from the 2022 Raleigh recount in which mailed ballots were marked spoiled and later contested; they testified in favor of S.536, a bill to require documented records of spoiled ballots and public inspection.
Former Representative Lenny Mera told the Joint Committee on Election Laws he and others experienced improperly spoiled mailed ballots during a 2022 recount in Raleigh that they say disenfranchised voters and affected the outcome.
“My team…got to look at them, and over 80% of those spoiled ballots were for Lenny,” a witness in the recount told the committee, describing an instance in which attorneys were permitted to inspect and extract five ballots from a larger pile of spoiled ballots during a recount.
Sandra Capo, who testified she…
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