Republicans’ “baseless attempts” to overturn a loss in North Carolina could drag on for months

After a hearing of the State Court on Friday, an attempt before North Carolina state Republicans to L Alison RegesIt seems that a democratic and judge in the state’s Supreme Court, it seems that they are preparing to continue for weeks, if not months.

In the case, Republican candidate, Judge of the Court of Appeal Jefferson GriffinHe ultimately seeks to hand him over to the state -led Supreme Court in the state by winning by rejecting a retroactive impact of about 65,000 voters. Last November, Griffin lost 734 votes, a defeat confirmed by two novels.

At the hearing on Friday, Riggs, Jefferson’s lawyers and the state’s election council have argued their cases in the trial. The ruling is expected to be in the coming days, which will open the door to an appeal at the state level, as the state’s supreme court was the final authority.

According to GRIFFIN, tens of thousands of polling cards should be offered due to incomplete voter registration records; In some cases, the recordings lacking the driver’s license or the social security number, partly due to bureaucratic errors. In separate protests, Griffin claimed that some military and foreign voters were either as a resident of North Carolina or lacking the identity of the voters.

In the Wake County Court on Friday, Regez’s lawyer, Raymond Bennett, said that Griffin’s challenge is “a kind of deprivation retroactively.” He described it as “primarily unfair,” on the pretext that it is “hostile to democracy and violates the law of the state.”

Bennett said: “Judge Griffin admits that he was not a single unqualified voter based on the rules that were present at the time of the elections,” Bennett said. “Now he wants to change these rules.”

Griffin’s lawyer, Craig Shawar, argued that their choice of votes he would challenge in court was not a political decision. Griffin only chose to challenge the voting cards for voters who lost data in the voter file and who voted early or by mail, instead of challenging voters from all voters who have missing data. However, those who vote early and in the boss tend to prefer Democrats in North Carolina, while voters tend to prefer Republicans.

Earlier this week, Reges and the state’s election council argued that the case would be resolved in the Federal Court, saying that the votes of tens of thousands of voters are a federal legal issue. However, the fourth circle ruled that the case should be charged in the state court first and that federal courts can take the case if any federal legal cases are pending. This means that the case can be played through the court system, before transferring it to the federal court, which paves the way for several months of litigation.

The three judges’ painting was written in the fourth circle: “If it is [election] The Board of Directors prevails in the province of Wake on the issues of the state law, the solution to federal claims may not be necessary.

In a statement after Friday’s session, Reges said she was determined to fight. She said: “I am committed and honored to defend the rights of all voters in North Carolina, whether they vote for me or not.” “Today, the lawyer and lawyer of the North Carolina Elections Council revealed the challenges of Judge Griffin for what they are – unfounded attempts to cancel the elections that he lost, undermining the freedoms of voters in North Carolina,” said Reges, the basic freedoms. “

Griffin’s campaign did not respond to the comment request.

Chris Shenton, a lawyer working with the Southern Alliance for Social Justice, a group that presented Amikos summaries in opposing Griffin’s attempt to cast the votes, said he believed the legal battle will continue for some time.

“I think the conclusion of today is the same as it was: there will be more steps in this litigation.” There is nothing wrong, and Caroline did not simply choose to work in the Supreme Court to ignore a rude process of the democratic process. “

In this case, voting rights organizations, such as the Southern Alliance for Social Justice, highlighted the lack of argument in the argument of Griffin, as well as the fact that “the voices of thousands of voters who face a challenge themselves were flagrantly absent.”

“It is amazing, Judge Griffin failed to claim any evidence that even one of these voters is already unqualified to vote in North Carolina – only they should have anticipated his unprecedented challenges and followed a virtual alternative group of rules, and it was never presented to them and the lawyers wrote for the sake The Southern Alliance for Social Justice in a summary of amicos, when the voting. ” “This failure to claim, not to mention proving that any of the voters who face a challenge is already unqualified to vote in North Carolina is enough and independent ground to reject Judge Griffin’s protest.”

In a written statement, Cindy Oufan Anthony, a resident of Gaston Province, who is facing her poll, explained that she “submitted her leadership license when she voted early in the general elections in November 2024.”

“I learned that her name was included in the list of voters that Judge Griffin stabbed from a member of her church, and she called the Jackson County Elections Council to confirm that she had submitted her leadership license in her registration form,” statement Read. “If her ballot is eliminated, she will feel that a basic right has been transferred, and she was wondering what this means for all the elections that occurred.”

Anthony is not the only voter who voted with her leadership license either. “She used a North Carolina driving license to vote without any complications.”

When I discovered that the Republican was challenging her vote, “I initially believed that it was unwanted mail because he was directed to” Amy Brian or the current resident. “

“I finally found her name in this list of voters who were interrogated by Judge Griffin’s campaign. Dr. Bryant has contacted Griffin’s campaign and did not receive any response,” she statement Read. “Bryant believes that this entire process is unfair and that canceling its vote with 60,000 people will be a blow to our democracy.”