North Carolina Supreme Court Rules to Count Some Ballots, Reject Others

[dweller]

North Carolina’s highest court issued a mixed ruling Friday in the ongoing legal saga over the 2024 election between state Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs (D) and her Republican challenger, appeals court judge Jefferson Griffin.

Per today’s ruling, around 60,000 ballots with incomplete registrations cast in the 2024 state Supreme Court election will be counted. The Court also issued a 30-day cure period for the roughly 5,000 overseas military voters who did not provide proper photo ID when they registered to vote. But the Court greenlit the decision of a lower court to reject around 200 ballots cast by overseas voters who are registered to vote in North Carolina but never resided in the state. Those ballots will not be counted.

Riggs said in a statement that she will immediately ask the federal courts to intervene in the case.

The ruling is the latest development in Griffin’s ongoing legal challenge to the November election, which he lost to Riggs by just 734 votes. Griffin filed multiple lawsuits challenging the state’s decision to count some 65,000 ballots cast by voters with incomplete registrations, military and overseas voters who didn’t provide photo ID or overseas voters who never resided in North Carolina.

https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/north-carolina-supreme-court-rules-to-count-some-ballots-reject-others/


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[ms liberty]

1. My husband's uncle is on the list. He registered to vote in 71 and has voted in every election.

[dweller]

2. Griffen will probably

want his votes thrown out retroactively
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[MichMan]

3. Why would someone living overseas who has never lived in NC be allowed to cast votes in a NC election?

How were the registered to vote there in the first place?

[dweller]

4. I really can't answer that

But I wonder if it’s common in other states also

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[OldBaldy1701E]

5. I believe there have been instances where a person has been granted 'state citizenship' as an 'honor'-type thing.

I believe that Lafayette was given state status in both NC and VA. I know that was a long time ago, but that was the only example that I could think of, and I may be wrong about that. I always thought it was an honor akin to the 'keys to the city'.

[MichMan]

6. Interesting; one wouldn't think that would lead to voting privileges

[dweller]

7. Read last nite that

They were children of parents that lived there , but children didn’t .
Doesn’t make it any clearer , or legit


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