Almost six months after the election of the Supreme Court of North Carolina happened, the competition was still not called and the winner is still not certified.
It is almost entirely due to the Barraga litigation from the Republic Candidate Jefferson Griffin, who sued more than 65,000 ballots that would be thrown away after being thrown, launched the legal sague that tests some of the most beautiful precedent elections. Efforts, if successful, could be more than enough to rock election results, as Griffin is currently looking for a democratic alemocratic argument for approximately 700 votes.
But even if Push ultimately falls, Griffin’s critics, they say that they could have long-term consequences and inquiry the journey for more candidates – no matter how much legally questionable – the results of the election decided to narrow margins.
“It is obvious attempt to manipulate the laws and courts in the change of rules after the rules,” said Ann Webb, the Director of Politics with the North Carolina Chapter Judge, the Government Back Group.
Griffin’s arguments, Webb said, “require courts to say” yes, it’s okay to ask us to change the rules after the choices are done. “And here we really see something different and something terrifying, because in the future there is nothing stopping other candidates from any parties to use these same strategies and indicate this case.”
In an interview, Riggs called on Griffin’s legal approach to “insidious” and warned that it would probably be imitated if successful.
“Today is the problem with North Carolina, but tomorrow is the problem of Michigan and Arizona and Georgia,” she said, referenced other close shared state conditions nearby.
Even some Republicans of North Carolina called on Griffin to throw a towel.
“I wanted to win the Republican Judge because his philosophy is more aligned with me,” the former Govica Gov. Pat McCrory She said local news Outlet ABC11 this week. “He was defeated.”
“You adhere to the rules before the election. It is like a change in the criminal call after the end of the great vessel. You don’t do it,” McCrory said, adding that voters “voted based on the rules.
In addition, Republican LED groups Runs the ads In the state, he invites himself to Griffin to stop his litigation.
Griffin spokesman did not answer questions from NBC news for this story.
In the e-mail, the spokesman north Carolina Mercer accused Democrats that they were unable to “bring an argument on the merits of the case of Judge Griffin because they know that the law is not controversial.”
“If the Democrats were true, they would simply admit that they don’t really care about genuine choices,” only partisan outcomes added, “he added only partisan outcomes. The North Carolina GOP has joined Griffin in its original lawsuit in the State Court.
MONTHS OF LITER
Riggs, which were placed on the Supreme Court of the state in 2023. year, after the day of the election last November, the Griffin, Judge, the State Appeal Judge. The full counting of the machine, as well as a partial retail race, both showed the leading Griffin for 734 votes of 5.5 million ballots.
After that, Griffin submitted legal challenges, he supported North Carolina GOP, throughout the state, stating that more than 65,000 people were illegally voted. The claims focused on three categories of voters: voters who claimed that Griffin lawyers did not have driver’s licenses or social security numbers in the voter records; overseas pollers who did not live in North Carolina; and overseas voters who failed to provide photo identification with their ballots.
A series of niza nujansed and complex court judgments has followed the state courts of the North Carolina since then – including the Supreme Court, the bench that the winner of this election will join – and federal courts. (Griffin and Rigg were distracted from that when the question came before the courts they serve.)
The latest development on Tuesday arrived, when the Federal Appeals Court temporarily blocked Election officials North Carolina to move forward with the period that would enable thousands of military and overseas voters to “heal” their leaves after ordering the Supreme Court of North Carolina.
In that decision Earlier this month the Supreme Court ruled That about 60,000 votes cannot be kicked out, but that others could be if small mistakes were not repaired, which means that these voters should prove their eligibility officials.
Long-term consequences
Critics Griffin’s strategy say that his arguments are contrary to several long-founded precedents in the election law – and whether successful they could be used in future attempts.
One such precedent is the term that the selection rules must be set before the vote occurs, because Griffin wants to eject thousands of ballots by voters who followed the letter of the law.
Griffin’s criticisms also have been recorded and that only he asks whether the ballots will eject, not any of the other Republican candidates who competed in November in November.
“Republicans decide to challenge the voters who didn’t do anything wrong,” said the Chairman of the North Carolina Democratic Party Anderson Clayton on a recent invitation with journalists. “If they truly believe there is an election abuse, why doesn’t every Republican cause the same election results that Jefferson Griffin is currently?”
Meanwhile, more than 200 judges, government officials, lawyers and legal professors – Including some Republicans – He signed a letter to Griffin in the last month, “The arguments you advanced asked in our judicial system to change the rules in place to choose from 2024 after initiating its course.”
“If you succeed, tens of thousands of voters will lose their voice after voting,” they wrote. “For the sake of our judicial system, we ask you to stop your litigation now.”
In one of the latest applications from Griffin’s legal team in the Federal Court, his lawyers rejected the argument that he wanted to change “election rules after the election.”
“That is not what courts said. They held that” ordinary language “of the state constitution banned voters who never resided in North Carolina to vote in the state elections,” Griffin’s lawyer wrote. “And the Supreme Court of North Carolina found that the State Election Code was sought through voters to provide the identification of photographs with their ballots. As part of its cure for those voters to repair the flaws.”
Griffin’s critics recognize the value of legal remedies after the election, but claim that he should have challenged the rules before the election if they were worried about them.
“It’s important to have a fuel-election valve in the form of post-election (legal) challenges – if the law is incorrect or there is evidence of fraud,” he said to scam, “he said for the scam.
But in this case, she said, Republicans “using the escape valve to bring the challenge to the parts of the laws that were there and available to challenge the challenge in the last few years in recent years.”
2025-04-26 10:00:00
