Sloppy election board practices raise questions on NC Supreme Court election | Eastern NC Now

The election  for a NC Supreme Court seat between radical lefitst Democrat appointee Allison Riggs and conservative Court of Appeals Judge Jefferson Griffin is still not resolved as vote recounts continue, and large numbers of election challenges have been filed.  On election night, Griffin led by nearly 10,000 votes, but the latest count had Riggs ahead by 637.

Challenges hve been filed by Judge Griffin's campaign, the North Carolina Republican Party, and several individuals.  The 131 challenges from Griffin cover over 60,000 votes.  The state and county boards of election will work through hearing those challenges over the next several weeks, and then there are likely to be challenges in court.  One court case has already been filed by the NC Republican Party.

In some cases, Democrat controlled county election boards have brazenly disregarded the law to count ballots of dead people.  State law clearly provides that if a voter either votes by mail or early voting and then dies before election day, their ballot has to be retrieved and their votes removed from the count.  In Beaufort County, one voter died before election day, and the county elections board followed the law and removed their votes.  A number of counties including Wake refused to do that, and a Democrat member of the Wake board openly claimed they were not bound by that state law.  In those counties, those illegal votes were counted and they are among those challenged.

State election law also provides that felons who have not completed their sentence including probation cannot vote.  Five did so anyway in Beaufort County during early voting, and all five had their votes retrieved and cancelled.  Other counties have disregarded the law and counted these votes anyway, and those are among the challenges.

Overseas persons who had no connection with counties where they registered by mail are also among the challenges.  A few of those have already been dealt with by local boards.  For example, in Lee County, four people in four different countries all registered by mail with the same residential address, but apparently never had any connection with that address or even to Lee County, and may not have even been US citizens.  Those voters were disqualified and their absentee ballots removed and deducted from the count.  All had voted Democrat.  The District Attorney for Lee County has also indicated he will have them indicted for election fraud so they can be tried if they ever show up in the US.  This would have probably slipped through except for the eagle-eyed Lee County GOP chairman discovering it and filing a challenge prior to election day.

Many of these overseas voters who registered by mail have failed to  comply with NC law of providing a photo ID.  Many also have no apparent connection to the place where they registered.  This follows a Democrat National Committee effort to register Americans abroad and funnel them into swing states.  These votes are also among the Griffin challenges.

One of the huge messes, which has repeatedly been brought to the attenton of the State Board of Elections, but they have refused to do anything about it is the more than 400,000 NC voters whose registrations fail to comply with the federal Help America Vote Act (HAVA).  That law requires voter registrations to include either the drivers license number or the last four numbers of the social security number, both of which can be used to verify the voter's identity at the time they register.  While thousands of these non-compliant registrations date back from before HAVA was enacted, and the sloppy state BOE has simply failed to update them, although most other states have, but they have continued to accept new registrations without this legally required information.  As late as early voting 2024, people were still being allowed to register in North Carolina without this data in many counties.

The Griffin campaign has suggested a "curing" process for those votes.  Voters in that category would receive a letter telling them they needed to provide that legally required information by a set date.  Those who did so would have their votes counted.  Those who fail to do so would have their votes cancelled, but that can only be done for those who voted by early voting or mail in.  There is no possible way to retrieve election day ballots.

Election integrity campaigners have brought formal HAVA complaints before the NC state Board of Elections in the past over this very issue of failing to obtain this required data, but the board blew them off and refused to do anything about it.  They did not even change their forms as to new voters to start complying with the law.

https://redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2024/11/26/update-the-strange-and-unacceptable-twists-in-the-north-carolina-supreme-court-race-n2182490