North Carolina is seen as a swing state in the coming election. The eastern part of the state will vote Republican and the major cities will vote Democrat. There are questions about the integrity of the election process in some of the major cities. The citizens of the state voted for a state constitutional amendment in the last election to help prevent voter fraud. The voter id law was struck down by the state court. That decision has been overturned by another state court and is on its way to the state Supreme Court. That is only some of the shenanigans that have recently occurred. The North Carolina Board of Elections is changing the rules on absentee ballots weeks before the election. The Board has become a political entity under Governor Cooper, and this move is a further indication that the Democrats are not planning to play on a level playing field.
The following appeared on my Facebook page this morning:
Fox News posted an article today explaining exactly what is going on.
The article reports:
Both Republicans on the five-person North Carolina State Board of Elections submitted their resignations on Wednesday night, saying they were misled about the ramifications of the board’s recent legal settlement making rules governing absentee ballots less restrictive.
“Regarding the settlement agreement with the plaintiffs in the lawsuit filed by the North Carolina Alliance for Retired Americans against the State Board of Elections, attorneys from [Attorney General] Josh Stein’s office did not advise us of the fact that a lot of the concessions made in the settlement have already been denied in a prior case by a federal judge and another case by a state court three-judge panel,” Ken Raymond, who had served on the board since 2018, wrote in his resignation letter.
The shenanigans have been going on for a while.
Lt. Governor Dan Forest has written the following letter to Attorney General Barr:
This is only the beginning of what is going to be a very nasty election. What is happening in North Carolina is only one example of the reason we are going to see nine justices on the Supreme Court before the election.
Stay tuned.