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🔥🔥📣For Voters Challenged in Election Protest
From the NC State Board of Elections
Information for Voters Challenged in Election Protest
Statement Updated on April 4, 2025
Please see the State Board’s statement on the N.C. Court of Appeals decision on April 4, 2025. The State Board’s earlier statement about this election protest is included below.
Today[April 4th], the North Carolina Court of Appeals issued a decision in the election protest brought by state supreme court candidate Jefferson Griffin. The court’s decision may require the county boards of elections to contact voters whose voter registration forms did not include a driver’s license number or last four digits of a Social Security number, and to allow those voters to provide that information to their county board of elections, to ensure their votes for the supreme court contest count in the 2024 general election.
The court’s decision may also require the county boards of elections to contact military and overseas-citizen voters who used absentee ballots to provide a copy of their photo identification, to ensure their votes for the supreme court contest count in the 2024 general election. This protest does not affect these voters’ selections in any other contest on the ballot.
The court’s decision is not yet in effect and is likely to be appealed. If the court’s decision does go into effect, the State Board of Elections will provide instructions to affected voters on how to comply with the court’s decision.
Regardless of the ultimate outcome of this ongoing legal dispute, any voter who is concerned that their voter registration information is incomplete or is not up to date should submit an updated voter registration form. Submitting an updated voter registration form is easy. Any voter who has a license from the DMV can go to payments.ncdot.gov to fill out a voter registration application. If you’re already registered, submitting this information will merely update your existing voter registration. You don’t need to create a special account with the DMV. You can select “Continue as Guest” on the DMV’s website and proceed directly to submitting your voter registration.
If you don’t have a license from the DMV, you can download a voter registration form at ncsbe.gov/register-mail, and then print, sign, and submit that paper form to your county board of elections. Contact and address information for the 100 county boards of elections is available here: vt.ncsbe.gov/boeinfo.
The State Board will provide updated information as this legal dispute develops.
~PREVIOUS STATEMENT~
Statement Updated on February 17, 2025
The State Board of Elections is providing the following information in response to messages from voters whose ballots have been challenged in an election protest concerning the state supreme court justice contest. To see the full list of voters challenged in each type of protest, download Griffin Challenged Voters (XLSX).
A candidate for N.C. Supreme Court, Jefferson Griffin, has challenged the results of the November 2024 general election and has alleged that some voters were not eligible to vote in his contest.
If you received a notice from the North Carolina Republican Party stating, “your vote may be affected by one or more protests filed in relation to the 2024 general election,” it means that Mr. Griffin has alleged that your ballot is ineligible. Some voters have stated that they became aware in other ways that their name appears on the list of voters challenged by Mr. Griffin.
The State Board and county boards of elections have considered these challenges and have dismissed them in two decisions (Decision 1 (PDF), Decision 2 (PDF). Mr. Griffin has appealed those decisions to the courts. There are currently cases regarding these challenges in the North Carolina Court of Appeals and the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina. The State Board cannot predict what will occur in the courts with these challenges.
Most of the voters challenged allegedly do not have a driver’s license number or the last four digits of their social security number listed in their electronic voter registration record. There are various reasons why this may be the case. Many voters supply such a number when they register, and their county board of elections then attempts to validate that number with the DMV or the Social Security Administration. But because this effort involves attempting to match information in different government databases — using records created at different times in people’s lives — there are often mismatches in the data. When that occurs, the number is removed from the voter registration record because it failed to validate, and the voter is asked to provide an alternative form of identification when they vote for the first time.
Voters who have been challenged, like all registered voters in North Carolina, are welcome to contact their county board of elections with questions about their registration record, including how to update their information.
If voters would like to get in touch with the parties in this proceeding, the email address for the candidate bringing the challenges is info@jeffersongriffin.com. The email address for the candidate opposing the challenges is team@riggsforourcourts.com.
~EOM~
Source:
https://www.ncsbe.gov/information-voters-challenged-election-protest
Information for Voters Challenged in Election Protest
Statement Updated on April 4, 2025
Please see the State Board’s statement on the N.C. Court of Appeals decision on April 4, 2025. The State Board’s earlier statement about this election protest is included below.
Today[April 4th], the North Carolina Court of Appeals issued a decision in the election protest brought by state supreme court candidate Jefferson Griffin. The court’s decision may require the county boards of elections to contact voters whose voter registration forms did not include a driver’s license number or last four digits of a Social Security number, and to allow those voters to provide that information to their county board of elections, to ensure their votes for the supreme court contest count in the 2024 general election.
The court’s decision may also require the county boards of elections to contact military and overseas-citizen voters who used absentee ballots to provide a copy of their photo identification, to ensure their votes for the supreme court contest count in the 2024 general election. This protest does not affect these voters’ selections in any other contest on the ballot.
The court’s decision is not yet in effect and is likely to be appealed. If the court’s decision does go into effect, the State Board of Elections will provide instructions to affected voters on how to comply with the court’s decision.
Regardless of the ultimate outcome of this ongoing legal dispute, any voter who is concerned that their voter registration information is incomplete or is not up to date should submit an updated voter registration form. Submitting an updated voter registration form is easy. Any voter who has a license from the DMV can go to payments.ncdot.gov to fill out a voter registration application. If you’re already registered, submitting this information will merely update your existing voter registration. You don’t need to create a special account with the DMV. You can select “Continue as Guest” on the DMV’s website and proceed directly to submitting your voter registration.
If you don’t have a license from the DMV, you can download a voter registration form at ncsbe.gov/register-mail, and then print, sign, and submit that paper form to your county board of elections. Contact and address information for the 100 county boards of elections is available here: vt.ncsbe.gov/boeinfo.
The State Board will provide updated information as this legal dispute develops.
~PREVIOUS STATEMENT~
Statement Updated on February 17, 2025
The State Board of Elections is providing the following information in response to messages from voters whose ballots have been challenged in an election protest concerning the state supreme court justice contest. To see the full list of voters challenged in each type of protest, download Griffin Challenged Voters (XLSX).
A candidate for N.C. Supreme Court, Jefferson Griffin, has challenged the results of the November 2024 general election and has alleged that some voters were not eligible to vote in his contest.
If you received a notice from the North Carolina Republican Party stating, “your vote may be affected by one or more protests filed in relation to the 2024 general election,” it means that Mr. Griffin has alleged that your ballot is ineligible. Some voters have stated that they became aware in other ways that their name appears on the list of voters challenged by Mr. Griffin.
The State Board and county boards of elections have considered these challenges and have dismissed them in two decisions (Decision 1 (PDF), Decision 2 (PDF). Mr. Griffin has appealed those decisions to the courts. There are currently cases regarding these challenges in the North Carolina Court of Appeals and the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina. The State Board cannot predict what will occur in the courts with these challenges.
Most of the voters challenged allegedly do not have a driver’s license number or the last four digits of their social security number listed in their electronic voter registration record. There are various reasons why this may be the case. Many voters supply such a number when they register, and their county board of elections then attempts to validate that number with the DMV or the Social Security Administration. But because this effort involves attempting to match information in different government databases — using records created at different times in people’s lives — there are often mismatches in the data. When that occurs, the number is removed from the voter registration record because it failed to validate, and the voter is asked to provide an alternative form of identification when they vote for the first time.
Voters who have been challenged, like all registered voters in North Carolina, are welcome to contact their county board of elections with questions about their registration record, including how to update their information.
If voters would like to get in touch with the parties in this proceeding, the email address for the candidate bringing the challenges is info@jeffersongriffin.com. The email address for the candidate opposing the challenges is team@riggsforourcourts.com.
~EOM~
Source:
https://www.ncsbe.gov/information-voters-challenged-election-protest
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