{"id":39932,"date":"2020-09-09T14:23:21","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T18:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=39932"},"modified":"2020-09-09T14:23:21","modified_gmt":"2020-09-09T18:23:21","slug":"one-small-step-toward-election-integrity-in-north-carolina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=39932","title":{"rendered":"One Small Step Toward Election Integrity In North Carolina"},"content":{"rendered":"

On September 4, 2020, The Carolina Journal<\/a> reported the following:<\/p>\n

A three-judge panel has rejected a plea<\/a> to block absentee ballot witness requirements for North Carolina\u2019s fall election. The decision in N.C. Superior Court generated praise from the state Senate\u2019s leader on election issues.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe judges were right to reject this dangerous attempt to eliminate basic protections against fraudulent activity that took place in the most recent federal election, and I hope they do the same with the multiple other lawsuits filed by Washington Democrats this year,\u201d said Sen. Ralph Hise, R-Mitchell, in a news release. Hise co-chairs the General Assembly\u2019s Joint Legislative Elections Oversight Committee. He also leads a Senate committee on election and redistricting issues.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The judges agreed not to grant a preliminary injunction in the case of Chambers v. State of North Carolina.<\/em> Filed July 10 by four individual plaintiffs working with the American Civil Liberties Union, the case challenges an absentee ballot witness requirement in state law. The law requires one adult to witness an absentee ballot. It places limits on who can serve as a ballot witness.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The lawsuit alleges violations of four sections of the N.C. Constitution. But Judges Alma Hinton, Robert Bell, and Thomas Lock disagreed with the plaintiffs\u2019 arguments. The judges found that \u201cthere is not a substantial likelihood\u201d that the plaintiffs would win the case.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article concludes:<\/p>\n

\u201cWashington Democrats sued to overturn an election security law passed with bipartisan support in the wake of widespread absentee ballot fraud uncovered in the 2018 Congressional election for North Carolina\u2019s Ninth Congressional District,\u201d according to Hise\u2019s news release.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWitness signatures on absentee ballots helped uncover the fraudulent activity that took place in the 2018 Congressional election and is suspected to have taken place for many other elections before 2018,\u201d the release continued.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe court upheld the election integrity law that passed with broad bipartisan support after the NC-9 absentee ballot fraud,\u201d Hise said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Both state and federal courts have upheld the witness requirement, according to Hise\u2019s release.<\/strong><\/p>\n

On September 1, I posted an article<\/a> detailing some of the methods of voter fraud. Two of the targets of those who engage in voter fraud are absentee ballots and mail-in ballots. We do not need to do anything to make those ballots less secure, in fact, we need to do anything we can to make them more secure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On September 4, 2020, The Carolina Journal reported the following: A three-judge panel has rejected a plea to block absentee ballot witness requirements for North Carolina\u2019s fall election. The decision in N.C. Superior Court generated praise from the state Senate\u2019s … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3927,12762,625,12860,12861],"class_list":["post-39932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-absentee-ballots","tag-mail-in-ballots","tag-north-carolina","tag-the-carolina-journal","tag-witness-requirements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39933,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39932\/revisions\/39933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}