On Wednesday, North Carolina’s Democrat- manipulated elections board (NCSBE ) partially denied third party presidential candidates Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Cornel West the ability to look on the state’s November ballot.
In a 3- 2 decision, the NCSBE postponed certifying efforts by the We The People party ( Kennedy ) and Justice for All Party of North Carolina ( West ) to acquire ballot access for this fall’s elections. The club’s three Democratic members voted in favor of the certifying movement, while the two Democratic members voted against it.
The celebration of the government, a position now held by Democrat Roy Cooper, is essentially under the control of the state elections board under North Carolina legislation. A state court in March rejected a law that the GOP-controlled General Assembly recently passed that sought to equally divide the union’s politics.
The Persons and Justice for All Party of North Carolina “had turned in more appropriate names than the 13, 865 that were required” by law to get vote access for the November election, according to the Associated Press. These names ‘ qualification would have enabled the events to designate Kennedy and West as their respective national candidates in the future.
In voting against the motion to certify, the board’s Democrat majority “agreed more examination was needed of the organization ]s ‘ ] operations, including how signatures were collected, how party volunteers presented the petition’s goals to voters and what information was placed on petition lists”. Democrat part Siobhan O’Duffy Millen officially expressed fears that We The Persons individuals, as the AP described, “misrepresented Kennedy as an independent candidate, rather than someone who could be the group’s nominee”.
Running as an independent in the Tar Heel State may involve Kennedy to collect “at least 83, 188 qualifying names” to appear on the November vote, according to the store.
The NCSBE Democrat court’s decision to temporarily block We the People’s ballot entry appears to be based on claims in a pro-Biden very PAC’s lawsuit. The PAC claimed that We The People “misled signers into believing they were immediately campaigning to put Kennedy on the vote rather than to form a new political party that may subsequently carry a nominating convention” in response to CBS News.
On July 9, the NCSBE is expected to consider Kennedy and West’s calls for 2024 vote exposure.
As noted by Federalist Editor- in- Chief Mollie Hemingway in her best guide, Rigged: How the Media, Big Tech, and the Democrats Seized Our Elections, the Democrat- managed NCSBE took constitutionally suspect actions that provided Democrats an edge in the 2020 election. The committee and North Carolina Democrat Attorney General Josh Stein, who is currently running for governor, made a package with a group led by Russian election scammer Marc Elias to illiterately alter the government’s mail-in voting legislation without the consent of the General Assembly.
The settlement, according to the AP, made it possible for mail-in ballots to be received and tallied in the Tar Heel State up to nine days after Election Day. The U.S. Supreme Court ultimately granted the change, with Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh joining the court’s three Democratic appointees in allowing the deal to continue in effect.
According to a court spokeswoman, Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett had to wait for the court to “fully review the parties ‘ filings” and not make a decision on the case.
Democrat Election Interference
If ultimately upheld, the NCSBE’s move to keep Kennedy and West off the Tar Heel State’s 2024 ballot would be a major win for President Joe Biden.
Democrats have attempted to block third-party presidential candidates from casting ballots for the past year out of concern that their candidacies could derail Biden’s chances of winning. In addition to North Carolina, the Democratic National Committee and other bipartisan groups have filed complaints and lawsuits in various states throughout the nation challenging Kennedy’s and other third-party candidates ‘ ability to appear on the November ballot.
The New York Times first reported , on Biden and Democrats ‘ efforts against Kennedy and other third- party candidates in October. The outlet noted that” [p]werful allies of President Biden are aggressively working to stop third-party and independent presidential candidacies,” which they fear” could cost Democrats an election that many believe will again come down to a few percentage points in key battleground states.”
Democrats have successfully used this undemocratic strategy, as I previously stated in these pages, to keep the left-leaning Green Party off the ballot in previous elections.
The Federalist staff writer Shawn Fleetwood graduated from the University of Mary Washington. He previously served as a state content writer for Convention of States Action and his work has been featured in numerous outlets, including RealClearPolitics, RealClear Health, and Conservative Review. Follow him on Twitter @ShawnFleetwood
