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North Carolina went for Trump in polls; But in Durham County, Clinton won 78% of 156,000 votes

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A girl does her homework as voters queue up outside a polling booth in Durham, North Carolina, on Election Day last November. (Photo: Reuters)

Nicole Perlroth, Michael Wines & Matthew Rosenberg | NYT
The calls started flooding in from hundreds of irate North Carolina voters just after 7 am on Election Day last November.

Dozens were told they were ineligible to vote and were turned away at the polls, even when they displayed current registration cards. Others were sent from one polling place to another, only to be rejected. Scores of voters were incorrectly told they had cast ballots days earlier. In one precinct, voting halted for two hours.

Susan Greenhalgh, a troubleshooter at a nonpartisan election monitoring group, was alarmed. Most of the complaints came from Durham, a blue-leaning county in a

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