In North Carolina, we still don’t have the results from the state’s Supreme Court election in 2024. At issue are 60,000 ballots that were not properly or completely filled out. I don’t like the idea of disenfranchising people, but ballots should be properly filled out in order to be counted.<\/p>\n
On Friday, Breitbart<\/a> reported:<\/p>\n A North Carolina appeals court has ruled that more than 60,000 voters who voted in the state\u2019s Supreme Court election in November 2024 must verify that they are eligible to vote.<\/strong><\/p>\n The ruling from the appeals court ordering \u201cmore than 65,000 voters\u201d to prove their eligibility comes after Judge Jefferson Griffin, who ran against North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs in November, challenged the results of the election, according to<\/a> NBC News.<\/strong><\/p>\n Per the outlet, voters \u201cnow have 15 business days to provide state elections officials with the necessary proof of identity that would verify their votes,\u201d and voters who do not respond \u201cwill not have their votes counted in the race.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cThe inclusion of even one unlawful ballot in a vote total dilutes the lawful votes and \u2018effectively disenfranchises\u2019 lawful voters,\u201d the panel of three judges wrote. \u201cPost-election protests protect against this risk of vote dilution by enabling candidates and voters to rigorously investigate the election process, identify and challenges unlawful ballots, and ensure those ballots are not counted.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n Including an unlawful ballot is just as bad as not including a valid ballot. We need to get our elections squared away.<\/p>\n The article notes:<\/p>\n Griffin\u2019s \u201clegal argument centers on a claim\u201d thousands of people who voted in the election \u201cwere ineligible to vote, mostly because they did not provide proof of identity,\u201d through either a Social Security number or a driver\u2019s license, according to<\/a> the New York Times<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n North Carolina has voter ID laws. Those laws need to be followed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In North Carolina, we still don’t have the results from the state’s Supreme Court election in 2024. At issue are 60,000 ballots that were not properly or completely filled out. I don’t like the idea of disenfranchising people, but ballots … Continue reading