The League of Women Voters of North Carolina filed a federal class-action lawsuit Monday morning aiming to protect military and overseas votes cast in last fall’s state Supreme Court election. Some of those votes could be dropped from the final tally under a court order issued Friday.
“This case seeks to avert an unprecedented effort to change the results of a statewide election by discarding up to 5,509 votes from military and overseas voters five months after their votes were cast, confirmed, and counted,” according to the suit filed by LWVNC and four individuals. “Those voters, drawn from a selectively targeted subset of four counties, did everything election officials told them to do to successfully vote in 2024. But their vote in one race is in jeopardy because the losing candidate has completed his campaign to force state election officials to retroactively invalidate their votes. The need for federal court intervention to prevent such a grave subversion of the democratic process is urgent.”
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Here's my issue with this entire circus: If there was a problem with all of those votes, why were their votes in other elections that year already certified? Litigating the results of one race that you dislike the results of while accepting the same voters' ballots on all the other races cannot be interpreted as anything but blatant election stealing. This isn't even the closest race in recent memory for a Supreme Court seat: Cheri Beasley lost her seat by 401 votes in 2020.
If there was a problem with those voter registrations, it should have been dealt with before the election. Certifying results in every race those ballots voted in except for this one indicates some degree of confidence in their validity.
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