Democrat: “Deeply misinformed” NC ruling threatens to “disenfranchise” voters and overturn election

The majority Republic, the painting of three judges from North Carolina state The Court of Appeal on Friday I command The state elections council to re -calculate the aesthetics of voting in the controversial Supreme Court race in the state. The 103 -page decision is reversed by the court ruling. The judge of the Republican Court Jefferson GriffinRequesting tens of thousands of votes that he claims to be invalid.

Judges ruling 2-1, similar to the party, in favor of Griffin, who got rid of the case and lost the 2024 competition before the current justice Alison RegesDemocrat, 734 votes.

The judges wrote, referring to a legal precedent: “The process of post -election protest maintains the basic right to vote in free elections” on an equal footing. “This right violates when the votes are not accurate [because] [unlawful] [ ] Polling cards are included in the election results. “

Judges also ordered that the 60,000 Griffin had been infected with incomplete records of voters and more than 5,000 voters abroad and the military, Griffin, where they reported their failure to provide the image identifier with absent ballot cards that provide missing data or identity within 15 working days of postage history of notice for the account of their polling cards. Their votes in the elections will never be calculated, “Residents” will never be counted, their votes in the elections will not be calculated.

In a statement after the verdict, Rij is pledged to appeal the decision.

“We will immediately resume this misleading decision, which threatens to deprive more than 65,000 legal voters and puts a dangerous precedent, allowing politicians disappointed to thwart the will of the people.” Democratic justice has also pledged to continue “standing for the rights of voters in this state and standing in the way of those who will take power from people.”

Griffin’s challenge in the elections was based on the mark on three categories of polling cards that are argued that they are not valid: about 60,000 votes say that it was made by the voters who did not submit or did not ask them to provide social security license numbers or their leadership to register the voters; 5500 other foreign voters who say failed to include a copy of the voter identification with their absent votes; And a few hundred of inherited residence voters who did not live physically in the state.

He claims that delivering this polls would turn his defeat, which was confirmed by two narratives.

After the resumption of Reges, the case will return to the state’s Supreme Court, which in January re -gave Griffin to the Court of First Instance to overcome the usual measure to provide a challenge to the elections. Although the judges rejected his case after that, their opinion signal Embrace the argument of Griffin.