Elections are still ongoing in North Carolina, as Democratic state Supreme Court nominee Judge Jefferson Griffin filed a brief hard 5, 509 foreign voters who did not offer recognition with their votes in the 2024 election.
Griffin’s event is being heard by the very Supreme Court upon which he hopes to function, as his former Democrat player, Justice Allison Riggs, is recused from the situation. Earlier this month, the state’s high court blocked the Democrat-run North Carolina State Board of Elections (NCSBE ) from certifying the election for Riggs before Griffin’s case was heard.
Griffin’s vote protests are less focused on his problem of over 60 000 ballots, which he claims were cast improperly, in the Tuesday processing.
” At base, this situation presents a fundamental issue: who decides our vote rules? Is it the individuals and their elected staff, or the unelected officials sitting on the State Board of Elections? The Board is the true ruler in this case if it wins. It may ignore the election rules and legal rules, while administering an election but it wants”, Griffin’s processing said. The State Board is a bureaucratic body that has broken the law for generations while refusing to fix its problems. This violence was brought to the Board’s interest again in 2023 and again in 2024, both before the 2024 common vote, but the Board refused to follow the rules. These animals have then occupied their new homes.
On election day in November, Griffin was leading Riggs by around 10, 000 votes, but over the succeeding nine days, abroad, absent, and temporary ballots slowly started eating away at his guide, finally flipping the vote totals in favor of Riggs. She now leads by 734 seats.
All voters in North Carolina must present photo identification to cast ballots, both in person and absent, according to state law. Nevertheless, an NCSBE law opens a door for voters who are not required to abide by the law while voting abroad. Griffin is challenging that gap, and one righteousness, Richard Dietz, has already said that problem is “quite likely to be meritorious”.
Dietz argued that challenging the various almost 60, 000 votes using a unique identification explanation was unlikely to succeed in the Supreme Court’s opinion, which prohibited the NCSBE from certifying the election.
Griffin’s lawyers appear to have heeded that warning, as they now argue that “dealing with the question of photo identification for overseas voters first, for instance, the Court may be able to moot the rest of the petition”. Without providing any details, the filing described the tranche of 5, 509 overseas votes as the “primary category of protests at issue.”
The Republican suggested that the court deal with his various arguments first, with the no-ID overseas ballots being used as a “phased” approach. The court should turn to 267 voters who cast ballots but have never resided in North Carolina if those ballots do not turn the election in his favor.
If Griffin still refuses to support those two groups, his lawsuit demands that the court take into account the legitimacy of another 60, 273 ballots cast by unregistered voters who had provided no driver’s license or Social Security Number upon registration, as required by law.
By January 21, the NCSBE must respond.
The NCSBE has also appealed a U.S. district court ruling that remanded the case to state court while this matter is being considered at the state level. The appeal of the NCSBE will be heard by the federal Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. Infamous election rigger and far-left lawyer Marc Elias has been called in to assist at the federal level, which has oral arguments set for Jan. 27 in Richmond, Virginia.
Breccan F. Thies is an elections correspondent for The Federalist. He previously covered issues of education and culture for Breitbart News and the Washington Examiner. He is a 2022 Claremont Institute Publius Fellow and holds a degree from the University of Virginia. You can follow him on X: @BreccanFThies.
