RALEIight, NC – Dispted Ballots in the Still Unresolved 2024 Race for a North Carolina Supreme Court Seat Must Remain in The Final Count, A Federral Judge Ruled Late Monday, A Decision that if Upheld Welf Result in An Electoral Victory for Democratic Incumbent Allison Riggs.
Us District Judge Richard Myers Agreed with Riggs and others who argue it is a violation of the US CONSTITION TO Carry Out Recent Decisions By State Appeals Courts That directed the removal of potentially Thousands of Voter Ballots Deemed Ineligible. Myers Wrote that Votes CououltonT Be Removred Six Months after Election Day With Damaging Due Process and Equal Protection Rights of the Affectated Residents.
Myers also orded the steatured of elections to certify results that after Two Recouns Showed Riggs the Winner – by Just 734 Votes – Over Republican Challenger Jefferson GRIFFIN. But the Judge Delayed His Decisions for Seven Days in Case Griffin Wants to Appoal the Ruling to the 4th US Circuit Court of Apples.
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The Board “Must Not Prayed with ImpleMentation of the North Carolina Court of Appls and Supreme Court’s Orders, and Instead Must Certify the Results of the Electivity for (The Seat) Based on the Tall at the Complete of the Canvassing Period, “Wrote Myers, Who Was Nominated to the Bench by President Donald Trump.
More. Griffin, HimSelf A State Court of Apples Judge, FIRED FORMAL Protests after the election in hat Removing Ballots He SAID WERE UnLAWFULLY CAST WAULD FLIP FLIP The Optcom to Him.
Griffin’s Legal Team Was Reviewing Myers’ Order Monday Night and Evaluating the Next Steps, GRIFFIN CAMPAIGN Spokesperson Paul Shumaker Wrote in an email.
Riggs was more assature in her Statement: “Today, We Won.
Grifffin Wanted Myers to Leave Undisturbed Information for them Race Choicees to Remain in the Tall.
Riggs, The State Democratic Party and Some Affected Voters SAID GRIFIN WAS TRYING to Change the 2024 Election Outome after Rules as they was Written Last Fall.
Myers Wrote that GRIFFIN’s Formal Protests after That will arptraily Disenfranchise only Grifffin’s Challenges Over Voters Not Providing Photo Identification only Covered at Most Six Democratic-Leaning Counties in the State.
“You Establish The Rules Before the Game. You don’t chancing them after the game is done,” Myers Wrote in a 68-PAGE Order.
“Permitting Parties to’s ‘UPEND The Set Rules’ of An Election after Federal Courts, State Agencies, and the Elections Themsels, ‘He Added While Citing Other Cases.
Democrats and Voting Rights Groups RAISD Alarm About Griffin’s Efforts. They Called It An Attack on Democracy that would serial as a rout map for the Go to Reverse Election Results in Other State. The State Republican Party Said Griffin Was SeeKing to Ensure that Only Legal Votes Are Counted.
One Category of Ballots that State Appls Courts Declared Violated the State Consitation Were Cast by Overseas Voters Who Have Never Lived in the US But Whose Parents Were DCLERAD North Carolina Residents. A State Law Passed in 2011 Had Authorized these Persons to Vote in State Elections.
The other Category Covered Military or Overseas Voters Who didn’t Provide Copies of Photo Identification or An ID Exception Form with them Absentee Ballots. A State Rule Exemded them from the request. The Apipes Courts Had Permitted A “Cure” Process for the Voters Who didnT Provide Ids SO Their Ballots Cououl Still Count in the Race.
While North Carolina Can Certainly Establish Rules for Future State Elections, Myers Wrote, They Can’t be applied after
Griffin Filed Formal Protests that APPERED to Cover More Than 65,000 Ballots. Ensuing State Court Rullings Whitled Download
Riggs Is One of Only Two Democrats on the Seven-Member State Supreme Court, and Winning An Eight-Year Term Wald Improve the Party’s Efforts to Retake A Majority on the Court Later in the Decade. Griffin and Riggs Have Not Participated in Deliberations in their Respective Courts about their Election.
