A three -judge plate North Carolina state On Friday, the Court of Appeal listened to the oral arguments in the controversial legal battle surrounding the election of the Supreme Court – the only race in the country. Judge of the Court of Appeal Jefferson GriffinRepublican candidate, who leaks with only 734 votes, is seeking to obtain about 65,000 votes claiming to be invalid from the November competition.
The committee, which consists of two Republicans and Democrats, the lawyer of Griffin, the State Council for Elections and the Supreme Court in North Carolina Democratic State Alison Reges For 90 minutes. They asked lawyers to win the competing legal precedents with the principles of the election law that prohibit changes at the last minute before the elections and asked about, if any person, bearing the challenges of the elections.
Judge Toby Hampson, a democratic, told Griffin Craig Shawar’s lawyer, noting that “the petitioner in this case defies only some voices in some provinces,” noting that the personal voices were not stabbed. “How does it not impose a great burden on voters throughout North Carolina, where we only selectively discuss the ballot papers?”
In the appeal, Griffin asked the committee to cancel the minimum decision that the Electoral Council in North Carolina states properly denied its electoral challenges, and ordered the board of directors to deduct votes and send the case to a fact -finding hearing. He claims that more than 65,000 votes are inaccurate because the votes were made by voters who have not submitted or did not ask them to provide a driver’s license or social security numbers for their records; Voters abroad who failed to present the identity of the photos with the sounds of absence; And the ethnic voters in the residence who said they have never lived in the state.
It is claimed that the deduction of these voices will truly hand him over. However, Griffin has so far failed to prove that these voters will be unqualified.
During the Friday session, Judge John Tyson, a Republican, appeared on the issue of the eligibility of the voters, and asked the Reges lawyer, Ray Bennett, whether the voter was responsible for proving their eligibility by voting.
Although Bennett confirmed that the qualification of voting is subject to challenge, it distinguishes between eligibility and registration. He pointed out that the qualifications of voting shown in the constitution are appropriate reasons for the challenge, but the constitution and the statute requires that every voter be registered in order to vote.
“Each of these voters has been registered. They have been recorded, they were on the books, they were on the lists of voters,” Bennett said, adding: “You cannot rub the registration records in the past 90 days, specifically to avoid this type of harm that people can result in an attempt to try,” well, these people should not be registered. “But you can still challenge an unqualified person in those limited groups.”
The committee also spent a lot of hearing on Friday in the interrogation of the incomplete benefits of Griffin to register the voters. At one time, the Republican Court of Appeal judge, Farid Gur, asked whether there are still errors in conformity with the information of the voters in the State Council’s intercourse database and what the court should do with this fact.
“I am annoyed because in 2025, we still have mistakes in determining the identity of the voters sitting in the record of our state. I am upset with that.” The fact that we were not able to obtain it correctly until this point – I see why we have this [voter registration] The challenge is somewhat. “
North Caroline, whose voices were challenged under this petition Previously said Salon They suspect their records were marked by religious errors in matching their names with their identity information; Both will learn that their voters’ records contain social security numbers. They said that the nature of Griffin and the duration of its continuation have undermined her confidence in the integrity of the elections and courts of North Carolina, and fears were swept away from the future of democracy.
“I feel incredibly heavy than our democracy, and it seems that it is a very real possibility that we will not hold free and fair elections in North Carolina,” Spring McClor said at Helburu, to Dasson McClor, to the Salon newspaper in January.
The challenge in the elections in Griffin is now in the fourth month of litigation, and is expected to return to the state’s Supreme Court.
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