NC appellate court has ruled 2-1 along partisan lines that some 65,000 ballots should not count in the vote tally. It gave some of those voters about 15 business days to provide their missing information.
All of these votes were cast by voters who did all that they were required to do. Now, long after the election, this court is tossing t…
NC appellate court has ruled 2-1 along partisan lines that some 65,000 ballots should not count in the vote tally. It gave some of those voters about 15 business days to provide their missing information.
Riggs is expected to appeal to the highly partisan state supreme court and to take the case to federal court should they lose in state court and Griffin takes the tally lead.
“Changing the rules by which these lawful voters took part in our electoral process after the election to discard their otherwise valid votes in an attempt to alter the outcome of only one race among many on the ballot is directly counter to law, equity, and the Constitution,” Democratic judge Toby Hampson wrote in a lengthy dissent.
NC appellate court has ruled 2-1 along partisan lines that some 65,000 ballots should not count in the vote tally. It gave some of those voters about 15 business days to provide their missing information.
All of these votes were cast by voters who did all that they were required to do. Now, long after the election, this court is tossing thousand of them out. A very bad day for democracy. https://abc11.com/post/jefferson-griffin-allison-riggs-north-carolina-judges-rule-ballots-tossed-republican-candidate-supreme-court-race/16127804/
Riggs is expected to appeal to the highly partisan state supreme court and to take the case to federal court should they lose in state court and Griffin takes the tally lead.
“Changing the rules by which these lawful voters took part in our electoral process after the election to discard their otherwise valid votes in an attempt to alter the outcome of only one race among many on the ballot is directly counter to law, equity, and the Constitution,” Democratic judge Toby Hampson wrote in a lengthy dissent.
Does an appeal just go back to the state Supreme Court?
Yes. But a federal court decided that it could be heard by a federal district court judge after the state Supreme Court decided.
https://www.carolinajournal.com/appellate-judges-will-not-force-nc-supreme-court-election-dispute-to-return-to-federal-court/
Carolina Forward seems certain that this case will make it to SCOTUS. My political predictions are terrible, so I’m bracing for the worst.
If it does, the case that was supposed to be good for one time and one time only, Bush vs. Gore, may come into play.