April 16, 2025 - Epoch Times
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| Over in North Carolina, their state Supreme Court has just issued a ruling forcing the state to count tens of thousands of votes that are missing crucial details required by law, such as having no driver's license number and no last four digits of their Social Security numbers on file. | |
| And this decision of theirs is crucial, given the fact that the election in question is currently split by only 700 votes, meaning that this one decision can actually change the outcome of the race. | |
| And also, it creates a fascinating loophole where you have state election laws be very clear about what can and cannot be done, but if the state elections board decides to not follow the laws, well, it doesn't matter. | |
| Those votes will still be counted, and seemingly no one will be held accountable. | |
| Let's go through the details together. | |
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| Giving back to the story, let's rewind the clock back to August of 2023. | |
| That was when a man by the name of Michael Morgan, he stepped down from his position as a justice on the North Carolina State Supreme Court, leaving a vacancy. | |
| And as per the state constitution, that vacancy was filled with an appointment by the governor. | |
| And as such, the next month, in September of 2023, the Democrat North Carolina governor appointed a Democrat by the name of Allison Riggs to fill the vacancy. | |
| And the reason I mentioned that she is a Democrat is because North Carolina is a bit unique in that they have actual partisan elections for the state Supreme Court. | |
| And so, for example, in states like Wisconsin, that's just one example, they have elections for the state Supreme Court, but those candidates are not identified by party affiliation. | |
| They're all politically unaffiliated. | |
| But in North Carolina, justices on the state Supreme Court, they serve for eight-year long terms, and when they run for office, they overtly identify with one or the other political party. | |
| And so you fast forward to November of 2024, and the actual election for that spot on the Supreme Court was held. | |
| Because Allison Riggs was not elected, she was appointed, she had to go through the election process as the Democrat incumbent candidate. | |
| Opposing her was a man by the name of Jefferson Griffin. | |
| He was the Republican candidate who, prior to running for the state Supreme Court, he served as a judge on the North Carolina Court of Appeals. | |
| And so, between these two, the election was held in November of last year. | |
| You had 5.5 million total ballots cast, and when the dust settled, the Democrat incumbent won. | |
| Ms. Allison Riggs won the election by 734 votes. | |
| Now, because that margin of victory was so slim, razor slim, literally.01%, multiple recounts were had. | |
| However, all three recounts found the same thing, that the Democrat candidate had won. | |
| However, Mr. Griffin did not take the supposed loss lying down. | |
| And instead, instead of conceding the race, he filed a lawsuit in North Carolina state court arguing that roughly 60,000 votes should actually be disqualified given the fact that the voters who cast those ballots This lawsuit of his, | |
| it stopped the state elections board from being able to officially certify Ms. Riggs as the winner of the election pending resolution to the case. | |
| Now, eventually, the case made its way up to the North Carolina Appeals Court, wherein Mr. Griffin won. | |
| And for your reference, Mr. Griffin is a judge on the appeals court, but he did recuse himself from the case. | |
| Regardless, though, in a two-to-one split decision, the appeals court ruled that there were likely tens of thousands of ballots that were wrongly allowed to be included in the final count because those ballots came from people who did not comply with state law and or the state constitution. | |
| Just for your general reference, it has been a requirement since the year 2004 that voters must have their registration paperwork include either their driver's license number and or the last four digits of their social security number in order to be considered valid to vote. | |
| And also, it's worth noting that besides just this, there was another category of military and overseas voters who did not provide a copy of their photo ID with their ballots, which is also a requirement by state law. | |
| Basically, what happened is that state law said one thing, but the state election board appeared to have been very loose with enforcing those laws to the point that you had, on the one hand, upwards of 60,000 people without the required information in their registration | |
| Now, as a part of their actual ruling, the appeals court, they, quote, Meaning that whether it was the overseas military voters or just the people whose registration paperwork was missing those numbers, | |
| they all had 15 business days to fix the problem. | |
| Also, it is worth mentioning that besides the 60,000 incomplete registrations, And the overseas military personnel without IDs, there was actually another class of people whose votes were overturned by this case. | |
| A third category affects possibly hundreds of overseas voters who have never lived in the United States. | |
| Now, if all this is getting too confusing to follow, let me summarize it simply by saying the following. | |
| The appeals court found three buckets of people. | |
| The first bucket was roughly 60,000 voters whose registration paperwork was incomplete. | |
| They had 15 days to fix it up in order to have their vote count. | |
| Then the second bucket was overseas and military voters without a photo ID. | |
| They were also given 15 days to fix their votes. | |
| And then lastly, you had a group of voters who apparently never lived in the United States, and the court completely invalidated their votes without any option for any kind of a remedy. | |
| It is unclear how such people were even able to vote in the first place. | |
| Regardless, though, that's what the court said. | |
| However, the case was appealed again, all the way up to the North Carolina State Supreme Court, and Ms. Allison Riggs, who I should mention is a justice on that court, she recused herself from the case, just like Mr. Griffin recused himself from the case in the appeals court, but even without | |
| her, the State Supreme Court ruled in her favor. | |
| Specifically, in a 4-2 split decision, the State Supreme Court ruled that the ballots in question must be counted, and the rationale. | |
| is that the mistake is on the part of the election board, not the voters. | |
| And therefore, the voters cannot be punished. | |
| Here's specifically what the majority on the state Supreme Court wrote. | |
| Quote, The North Carolina State Board of Elections'inattention and failure to dutifully conform its conduct to the law's requirements is deeply troubling. | |
| Nevertheless, our precedent on this issue is clear. | |
| Because the responsibility for the technical defects in the voters'registrations rests with the board and not the voters, the wholesale voiding of ballots cast by individuals who subsequently proved their identity to the board by complying with the voter identification law | |
| would undermine the principle that this is a government of the people in which the will of the people, the majority, legally expressed, must govern. | |
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| What this means in practice is that the 60,000 votes that were cast by people with incomplete registrations, they're going to be left intact. | |
| Those people will not have to provide any additional documentation. | |
| However, interestingly, the state Supreme Court, it did uphold the other two portions of the lower court's ruling, meaning... | |
| That the overseas and the military voters, they'll still have to provide their photo IDs in order to have their votes count, except now they'll have 30 days to do so. | |
| And also the group of voters who never lived in the U.S., they will have their votes removed from the tally entirely without any option to cure them. | |
| And so that is where this election currently stands. | |
| The election itself was held roughly five months ago back in November. | |
| But even to this very day, an official winner has not been announced. | |
| The Supreme Court ruling was issued on Friday, April 11, and it gives the overseas military voters 30 days to send in their paperwork. | |
| This means that by May 10, a final recount can be had and a true winner can be announced. | |
| When that happens, I will let you know. | |
| However, in the meantime, if you would like to, for one, read the state Supreme Court full majority opinion, I'll throw a link to it down in the description box below. | |
| And also, I'd love to know your thoughts on this particular matter. | |
| What is your opinion of the state of North Carolina passing these voter ID requirements back in 2004, the state elections board not following those requirements, and then when someone actually calls them out for it, the Supreme Court says that nothing can really be done. | |
| It's not the voters' fault that the state elections board did not follow the law. | |
| The voters should not be disenfranchised for it, and therefore their votes will still count, even though they don't meet the standard of the letter of the law. | |
| They technically shouldn't count, But they do. | |
| Do you agree with that decision? | |
| And also, do you think someone will be held accountable from the state elections board for making the decision to not enforce the law? | |
| I'd love to hear your thoughts because one way to look at it is that this does create a bit of a loophole where the state legislature can create any laws that they want, any requirements that they want, but then if the state elections board just decides to be sloppy with the implementation or to just not implement those requirements at all, | |
| nothing will be done. | |
| At least seemingly. | |
| I mean, you never know. | |
| Maybe a different case will be handled differently. | |
| But at least in this case, the letter of the law said one thing. | |
| The state elections board did not follow the letter of the law, and yet the votes cast in that manner will still be counted. | |
| Very interesting. | |
| I'd love to know your thoughts. | |
| Please leave them in the comments section below. | |
| I'd love to know what you think of the case. | |
| I'll be reading your thoughts later tonight as well as into the week. | |
| And then, until next time, I'm your host, Roman from The Epoch Times. |
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