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Posted: 2017-04-21T21:09:50Z | Updated: 2017-04-21T21:09:50Z

Voting irregularities in North Carolina accounted for just 0.01 percent of nearly 4.8 million votes in last years general election, according to a State Board Of Elections audit released on Friday .

The State Board Of Elections said that even if every irregularity was proven to be voter fraud, there wasnt enough of it to have influenced the outcome of any race.

One ineligible vote is too many in any election; however, our analysis of irregularities does not indicate any contest was affected in November, Kim Westbrook Strach, executive director of the State Board of Elections, said in a statement.

The audit comes as the Supreme Court is considering whether to hear North Carolinas appeal from a lower court ruling blocking its controversial 2013 photo voter ID law, which lawmakers argued was needed to prevent voter fraud. The audit also is a slap to former Gov. Pat McCrory (R), who claimed there was voter fraud in the November election and refused to concede his defeat.

Officials in other states, including Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada, have been able to offer only scant examples of voter fraud. President Donald Trump, who won North Carolina in last years presidential election, has alleged that millions of illegal votes were cast for his opponent Hillary Clinton in the U.S. election. Trump has offered no evidence for the claim.

North Carolinas audit describes few instances of outright fraud.

The evidence suggests that participation by ineligible voters is neither rampant nor non-existent in North Carolina, the audit report said. Our audits suggest that in the 2016 general election, approximately 0.01% of ballots were cast by ineligible voters. Most incidents are isolated and uncoordinated, and detecting technical violations does not always prove purposefully unlawful conduct. Our work indicates that ineligible voters are not isolated to one political party or any geographical region of the state.

The audit found there were 441 investigations into suspected felons voting, 41 cases of non-citizens voting, and 24 substantiated cases of double voting. The audit found just two cases of voter impersonation the kind of fraud a photo ID voting requirement aims to prevent.