Democrats thought they had won the election for a seat on the North Carolina Supreme Court.
True, it was by only 734 votes, but a victory is a victory at the ballot box.
Then a ruling came down that ordered some 65,000 voters to prove their eligibility, or have their ballots removed from the total.
A report at the Gateway Pundit explains the situation now is “spiraling into electoral chaos.”
The Democrat who purportedly won was Allison Riggs. Conservative challenger was Jefferson Griffin.
“In a stunning decision filed Thursday, the North Carolina Court of Appeals ruled that approximately 65,000 ballots—cast by voters with incomplete registration information, missing photo identification, or submitted by individuals who have never lived in North Carolina—may be invalid under state and federal election law,” the report said.
The 2-1 decision was from Judges John Tyson and Fred Gore, both Republicans. Democrat Judge Tobias Hampson disagreed, expressing that the validation wasn’t needed.
The report said the court has ordered election officials from 100 counties to tell voters they have 15 business days to prove their eligibility to vote.
Or have their ballots discounted.
It is possible that the result of the election could now come out differently.
The original results had Riggs the winner, collecting 2,770,412 votes to Griffin’s 2,769,678
As with many recent elections, the GOP candidate was leading when all of a sudden ballots came in that turned the tide for Riggs, prompting Griffin to protest.
He argued thousands of people cast ballots even though they never completed their registration by providing a valid driver’s license or part of their Social Security number.
The appeals court blasted the state Board of Elections for refusing to uphold state law requiring those.