The State Board of Elections is conducting an audit of campaign expenditures by Rep. Ty Harrell, a Raleigh Democrat. 

Gary Bartlett, the board's executive director, said the audit was a routine procedure when the board's staff finds incomplete or insufficient information.

"We're asking for more details on the expenditures," Bartlett said.

The latest campaign report was filed over the summer, the middle of a non-election year, when there is minimal campaign activity.

"They indicated they had concerns about campaign activity in the off-year election cycle," Harrell said Wednesday.

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A few moments from Gov.-elect Beverly Perdue inaugural ball tonight:

U.S. Rep. Heath Shuler was the only member of the delegation on his flight from D.C. He has a 4-year-old daughter, Island, so a female governor has special significance.

"That means my daughter can do anything she sets her mind to."

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State Rep. Alice Graham Underhill was showing around her niece, 20-year-old Grace Ann Brooks, a junior studying communication at N.C. State University.

She attended an inaugural as an infant in 1989 when her grandfather, then-Commissioner of Agriculture Jim Graham, was sworn in.

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Labor Comissioner Cherie Berry's three daughters were in town from Charlotte; Toledo, Ohio; and D.C. She wore her grandmother's crystal necklace and earrings.

There are still 2 Republicans on the Council of State, with Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler.

"We can still get a second to a motion," she joked.

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Mecklenburg County Commissioners Jennifer Roberts and Harold Cogdell drove up for the festivities.

Perdue's Republican opponent last year was Charlotte Mayor Pat McCrory.

"We thought it was important to open a new channel with the governor's office." Cogdell said.

— Mark Johnson