RALEIGH – The North Carolina Board of Elections has decided how to handle counting the returns for an instant runoff election.
Thirteen people are running for the Court of Appeals. Voters must choose three candidates and rank them in order of preference.
If no one gets over 50 percent of the "first choice" candidates, the top two "first choice" vote-getters advance.
Ballots picking those two candidates as their first choice are set aside. Then, elections workers look at the second and third choices of the rest of the voters and apply those votes to the runoff candidates. (Read more)
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