{"id":21301,"date":"2025-04-27T14:05:35","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T14:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/a-lengthy-legal-battle-in-north-carolina-could-show-how-to-flip-an-election\/"},"modified":"2025-04-27T14:05:35","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T14:05:35","slug":"a-lengthy-legal-battle-in-north-carolina-could-show-how-to-flip-an-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/a-lengthy-legal-battle-in-north-carolina-could-show-how-to-flip-an-election\/","title":{"rendered":"A Lengthy Legal Battle in North Carolina Could Show How to Flip an Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">For months, Republicans in North Carolina have tried to do what President Trump and his allies could not in 2020: overturn an election that did not go their way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">What began as a sprawling effort to throw out 65,000 votes from the state\u2019s Supreme Court election in November has shrunk to a legal skirmish over a small fraction of those ballots. But even as Republicans\u2019 path to victory has narrowed, the final outcome still hangs in the balance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">And even if the Democratic candidate\u2019s victory is not reversed, the battle may have sketched a blueprint for overturning future elections.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Never before, legal experts from both parties say, has a losing candidate gained so much legal traction in trying to nullify votes cast by people who followed every instruction given to them, both when they registered to vote and when they submitted their ballots. Federal and state judges have shown a willingness to entertain Republican challenges of votes in Democratic-leaning areas that focused on technicalities and sought to reinterpret voting laws long after Election Day.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The episode, which in many ways is an acceleration of the right-wing movement challenging the 2020 presidential election, could encourage election challenges from candidates who lose fairly but are inclined to fight the outcome. More races could be subject to litigation after the polls close, as candidates try to wipe out votes with help from friendly courts and deep-pocketed legal campaigns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe stakes are far greater than one seat on the State Supreme Court,\u201d said Bob Orr, who served on the North Carolina Supreme Court as a Republican but has since left the party to become unaffiliated. He likened some of the recent judicial decisions clearing a path for votes to be tossed out retroactively to \u201copening up a Pandora\u2019s box.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cYou\u2019ve got a set of rules, and you don\u2019t wait until the ballgame is over and then say, \u2018Oh, by the way, I think we need to change the rules and change the score,\u2019\u201d Mr. Orr added.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-11f49a17\">A \u2018rewriting of rules\u2019<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The six-month legal odyssey in North Carolina began shortly after the November election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Republican candidate, Judge Jefferson Griffin, lost by 734 votes to Justice Allison Riggs, the Democratic incumbent. Two recounts confirmed the margin.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But Judge Griffin <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/22\/us\/north-carolina-supreme-court-race-explainer.html\" title=\"\">filed a protest<\/a> with the State Board of Elections that called for ballots from roughly 65,000 voters to be rendered invalid. His argument had more than one part.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He asserted that about 60,000 of those people had been ineligible to vote because they had not supplied certain required personal data, such as a driver\u2019s license number, when they registered to vote. But the omissions, he acknowledged, were not the voters\u2019 fault. The blame lay with administrative errors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The State Supreme Court <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/11\/us\/north-carolina-griffin-riggs-election-votes.html\" title=\"\">rejected that argument<\/a>, allowing the ballots to count.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Judge Griffin also argued that several thousand absentee ballots that had been cast by military and overseas voters should be nullified because those people had not provided identification with their ballots.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">This was a particularly remarkable move: North Carolina does has a voter ID requirement, but the State Board of Elections had exempted military and overseas voters from having to provide identification because of logistical and security hurdles. A Republican-controlled rules commission in the State Legislature had supported that exemption.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Nevertheless, the State Supreme Court, which has a 5-to-2 Republican majority, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/11\/us\/north-carolina-griffin-riggs-election-votes.html\" title=\"\">ruled this month<\/a> that these voters must provide identification within 30 days or their ballots will be thrown out. (Justice Riggs has recused herself from the case.) After an appeal, a federal judge appointed by President Trump ordered that the process continue. But last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit temporarily blocked this ID-verification operation while it considered the case.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The complexities do not end there. At the same time, the State Board of Elections interpreted the State Supreme Court\u2019s ruling regarding military and overseas voters as applying only to Guilford County, N.C., where there are about 1,400 contested votes. Judge Griffin has appealed that interpretation, asking that five more counties be included in the ruling. If he wins that appeal, the number of votes in question will increase to about 8,600. All of those counties lean Democratic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Lawyers for Judge Griffin have said they are trying to enforce laws that were on the books before the election but that the board of elections failed to apply. The North Carolina Republican Party has been supportive of Judge Griffin\u2019s challenge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt\u2019s unfortunate anyone has bought the lie from Democrats that this case is about anything other than the failure of the State Board of Elections to follow the law,\u201d said Matt Mercer, the spokesman for the state Republican Party.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">As this legal back-and-forth extends toward summer, voting-rights experts see a troublesome future, when candidates could regularly refuse to accept the results of close elections and when courts could bless those challenges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt\u2019s a kind of retroactive rewriting of rules that is fundamentally unfair to voters who followed all the rules to cast their vote and have their vote counted,\u201d said Vanita Gupta, the associate attorney general under President Joseph R. Biden Jr. \u201cBut it also means that no election is reliably final if it invites this type of post-election effort to change the rules in order to change the result.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Judge Griffin\u2019s effort in North Carolina is a culmination, of sorts, of a growing movement among right-wing groups to challenge voter eligibility en masse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Spurred on by the conspiracy theories of election fraud that proliferated after the 2020 election, which were in turn driven by Mr. Trump\u2019s lie that the contest had been stolen from him, these groups have embarked on their own <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/09\/28\/us\/politics\/election-activists-voter-challenges.html\" title=\"\">investigations of voter eligibility<\/a>. They have filed mass challenges and <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/03\/03\/us\/politics\/trump-voter-rolls.html\" title=\"\">flooded local election officials<\/a> with complaints that often target minority and poor communities, groups that have traditionally leaned Democratic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Legal experts said some of the lawsuits in 2020, including those that tried to toss out ballots placed in drop boxes, had served as something of a trial balloon for Judge Griffin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Danielle Lang, the director of voting rights at the Campaign Legal Center, a nonpartisan watchdog group, said those cases \u201cwere thrown out everywhere because it was beyond the pale to suggest that a voter who dropped their ballot in a drop box set up by election officials\u201d could have that vote invalidated after an election.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But should the courts ultimately side with Judge Griffin, Ms. Lang warned, \u201cyou will be able to engineer election results.\u201d Or at least try to with much greater ease.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Judge Griffin\u2019s legal effort is also most likely a preview of what could happen if activists succeed in rewriting the rules governing another, once-routine element of elections: the certification of votes, a typically ceremonial task that finalizes an election\u2019s result.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">After the 2020 election, and again in the run-up to the 2024 contest, activists sought to make the certification process discretionary, allowing local officials or partisan legislators to disrupt certification if they doubted the result\u2019s integrity. Judges rebuffed those efforts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But in January, citing Judge Griffin\u2019s legal battle, the North Carolina Supreme Court blocked state officials from certifying Justice Rigg\u2019s victory. It was the only race in the state not to be certified.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Now, a primary justification used by Republicans for overturning the results of the race \u2014 though not any other contest in the state despite the likelihood that the voters in question also voted in those races \u2014 is that the State Supreme Court election remains uncertified.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-8\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cHistorically, certification has been seen as the end of the election, including the end of challenges to election results,\u201d said Mai Ratakonda, the election protection program director at States United Democracy Center, a nonprofit that works with state officials to increase confidence in elections.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Even amid the uncertainty in North Carolina, some election experts were able to see a benefit in having this debate well before major elections like the 2026 midterms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cA possible silver lining,\u201d said Bob Bauer, a professor at New York University Law School who has advised Democrats on election law issues, \u201cis that the courts will have the opportunity to rule clearly now, early in this election cycle, that these kinds of election challenge strategies are impermissible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Anne Tindall, a lawyer with Protect Democracy, a nonpartisan group that monitors elections, said the bottom line was that a dangerous precedent was being set.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe big story here,\u201d she said, \u201cis that never, ever, ever before have we seen a court, months after an election, change election rules to retroactively disqualify a class of voters and flip the results.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIf you can do that,\u201d she added, 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