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| Office | Senate |
| Honorific | Senator - Abbr: Sen. |
| Type | General Election |
| Filing Deadline | April 10, 1930 - 12:00pm Central |
| Polls Open | November 04, 1930 - 06:00am Central |
| Polls Close | November 04, 1930 - 08:00pm Central |
| Term Start | March 04, 1931 - 11:00am |
| Term End | January 03, 1937 - 11:00am |
| Contributor | Chronicler |
| Last Modified | Chronicler March 16, 2013 06:58pm |
| Data Sources | North Carolina Manual 1931; Wake County archives for write-ins (Furnifold M. Simmons (D*) - 4 and Thomas Bost - 1). |
| Description |
Although Bailey won this race rather handily, in the months following the election, more and more instances of innovative vote counting techniques were reported throughout the State. Pritchard hired an attorney to review all the allegations, and he decided to contest the election. The 'regular' Republicans had control of the Senate, but the independent Republicans from the Plains states sometimes supported the Democrats and held the balance of power. As a result, the regular Republicans encouraged Pritchard to pursue the challenge. A special committee investigating the race ordered that all ballots be collected so it could perform a recount. This event eventually ended the challenge, since Bailey won by such a wide margin that even the Republicans realized that they would have to invalidate about one-third of all votes cast in order to win the race.
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