North Carolina Supreme Court rules most ballots must count in contested race
- The North Carolina Supreme Court ruled that over 60,000 ballots must be counted, rejecting efforts to discard them due to missing information and affirming that those voters did nothing wrong.
- Judge Griffin's efforts were deemed discriminatory against Democratic voters, as stated by the Court, which emphasized that these voters did nothing wrong.
- The court stated that voters have a constitutional right to be treated equally under the law, emphasizing the decision's significance for democracy.
- The case has been sent back to the Court of Appeals for further instructions on how overseas voters can verify their identity without losing their right to vote.
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Democracy Watch, an Asheville Watchdog biweekly column on local politics, makes its debut • Asheville Watchdog
Although 2025 isn’t an election year for North Carolina voters, it is certainly a political one. This season is already teeming with activity that may reshape North Carolina’s government, Congress (and through it the White House), and democracy itself. Politics writer Tom Fiedler returns to chronicling who’s doing what in the runup to the election, which will be Nov. 3. We’ve renamed his column from Election Watch to Democracy Watch to capture t…
Jefferson Griffin has a numbers problem
It has been a game of legal ping pong since sore loser Jefferson Griffin challenged the results of his narrow loss last year in the state Supreme Court race to incumbent Democratic judge Allison Riggs by 737 votes. It can be very hard to keep track of...
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