Source: NEWS & OBSERVER, 7/30/19


Bob Cordle, the state Board of Elections chairman, resigned Tuesday night following reports about a sex joke he made Monday at a conference with hundreds of elections officials. “I sincerely apologize to those who heard my joke at the elections conference on Monday and all those affected by my words,” Cordle said in a written statement Tuesday. Cordle, a retired Charlotte laywer, is the third state elections chairman to resign since December. He was appointed in February as chair.

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