A North Carolina Court of Appeals ruling has ordered that over 60,000 contested ballots in the state Supreme Court race must be verified within 15 days or be discarded.
The decision favors Republican candidate Jefferson Griffin and overturns a previous ruling by the Wake County Superior Court. Critics argue the ruling could disenfranchise voters, especially military and overseas voters in Democratic-leaning areas, by requiring photo ID not mandated by law. The case has sparked concerns about election integrity and potential partisan manipulation of judicial races.
The outcome could ultimately change the result of the closely contested Supreme Court election.
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This is exactly why government-run elections are such a mess—too much bureaucracy, too many rules that shift depending on who’s in charge. If the state can't even count ballots fairly without partisan interference, why should we trust them with anything else? Centralized power over something as critical as voting is just asking for corruption.
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The court is also mandating that military and overseas voters in heavily Democratic Guilford County provide a copy of their photo IDs, even though the voter-ID statute doesn’t apply to them. Gore is a former member of the National Guard, and he ran a “joint campaign” with Griffin and other Republicans in 2020. He’ll be on the ballot again in 2028.
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