Raleigh, NC (AP) – the controversial ballots in the still unintended competition in 2024. As a place of the Supreme Court in North Carolina, they must remain in the final census, a federal judge ruled at the end of Monday, a decision that if it supports the electoral victory for Democratic activity of Alison Rigs.
US District Judge Richard Myers agreed with Riggs and others who claim that this would be a violation of the US Constitution to hold recent decisions by state appellate courts, which directed the removal of potentially thousands of ballots for voters they consider inapplicable. Myers wrote that the votes cannot be removed six months after the election day without damaging the proper process and equal rights to protect the affected residents.
Myers also ordered the State Council for election to certify the results that after two censuses showed Riggs the winner – with only 734 votes – over Republican contender Jefferson Griffin. But the judge delayed his decisions for seven days if Griffin wanted to appeal the decision before the Fourth Court of Appeal of the United States.
The Council “should not proceed with the implementation of the North Carolina Court of Appeal and the orders of the Supreme Court and should instead certify the results of the elections for the (place) based on the level when the payment period is completed,” writes Mayers, who was nominated for the bench by President Donald Trump.
More than 5.5 million ballots have been thrown into the last nation’s latest race in November. Griffin, the court judge itself, filed official protests after the election in the hope that the removal of the ballots he said were illegally thrown would reverse the result.
Griffin’s legal team reviewed Mayers’ order on Monday night and evaluates the next steps, writes Griffin Paul Shumaker campaign spokesman in an email.
Rigs was more secure in his statement: “We won today. I am proud that I continue to maintain the constitution and rule of law as justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina.”
Griffin wanted Mayers to leave the unsettled decisions of the state courts, which also directed that most of the voters with otherwise unacceptable newsletters receive 30 days to provide identifying information about their choice of race to remain in the combination.
Rigs, the State Democratic Party and some affected voters, said Griffin was trying to change the election result in 2024 after the fact, eliminating ballots, electoral by voters who had complied with the voting rules as they were written last fall.
Myers wrote that Griffin’s official protests after the elections, which were rejected by the State Election Council, are an effort to make retroactive changes to the voting laws that would arbitrarily disgrace only the voters who were directed by Griffin. Griffin’s challenges to voters who do not provide photos identified only six counties of democratic clothing in the country.
“You set the rules before the match. You don’t change them after the game is running,” Myers wrote in order 68 pages.
“Allowing parties to” perceive the rules “in the election after the election can only lead to” confusion and turmoil “that” threatens to undermine public confidence in the federal courts, state agencies and the election itself, “he added, referring to other cases.
Democrats and voting groups have caused a concern about Griffin’s efforts. They called him an attack on democracy, which would serve as a road card for GOP to reverse election results in other countries. The State Republican Party said Griffin seeks to ensure that only legitimate votes were counted.
A category of ballots that the state appellate courts have announced that they have violated the state constitution have been thrown by voters abroad who have never lived in the United States, but whose parents have been declared residents of North Carolina. State law, adopted in 2011, authorizes these persons to vote in state elections.
The other category covered military or overseas voters who have not provided copies of photo identification or exception form with their absent ballots. The state rule releases them from the requirement. The appellate courts have allowed a process of “cure” voters who do not provide personal documents, so their ballots can still be reported in the race.
Although North Carolina can certainly establish rules for future state elections, writes Mayers, they cannot be applied after the fact only for a selected group of voters.
Griffin has filed official protests that seem to cover more than 65,000 ballots. The subsequent decisions of the State Court went down to a total of 1675 ballots or perhaps up to 7000, according to court documents.
Riggs is one of only two Democrats in the Supreme Court of the State of the Seven-Mountains, and winning an eight-year term will improve the party’s efforts to return a majority in court later in the decade. Griffin and Riggs did not participate in the discussions in the relevant courts for their election.