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To the editor:
Where are the ethical and moral obligations our elected Judiciary should have? It is certainly not on display in the Supreme Court race regarding Jefferson Griffin v. NCBE.
The NCBE validated the vote count twice but then Griffin pushed the issue anyway with the backing of the National Republican Party.
From the beginning, the Republican strategy was clear: focus challenges on ballots from Democratic areas, create multiple avenues for contesting the results – any of which could flip the outcome — and keep the case in state court, where the 5–1 Republican-majority Supreme Court would ultimately decide the outcome.
Most critically, the NC Supreme Court ordered the state to create a new 30-day “cure” period for the affected voters to submit the paperwork necessary for their votes to count. Since these voters reside overseas and are drawn overwhelmingly from Democratic constituencies, the court’s move was a cynical way to tilt the scales in Griffin’s favor under the guise of being evenhanded,” Said Marc Elias of the Democracy Docket.
You can’t change the rules after the fact. The Democrats tried this in Louisiana in the 1960s and it was finally overturned by the Federal Appeals Court. Politics and power grabs are obviously a dirty business, but this type of behavior should be condemned and identified as fraud at the highest levels of Judiciary. These are the same Judges who adjudicate cases supposedly based on fact and legal reasoning?
What about our fundamental rights; follow the rules, 1 person, 1 vote. This behavior continues to show that our political system is broken.
Christian Anderson
Mocksville