See below for an excerpt from the article. You should read the full article. There is a lot more detailed information on the case within.
https://www.carolinajournal.com/top-...hers-in-doubt/
Top NC court upholds 60K votes challenged by Griffin, leaves others in doubt
The North Carolina Supreme Court split 4-2 Friday afternoon in a decision designed to resolve the dispute over last fall’s high court election. A unanimous court agreed that more than 60,000 ballots cast by voters with incomplete voter registration records should count. But the fate of 5,700 other challenged ballots remains uncertain.
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“Under this court’s longstanding precedent, mistakes made by negligent election officials in registering citizens who are otherwise eligible to vote ‘will not deprive the [citizens] of [their] right to vote or render [their] vote[s] void after [they have] been cast,’” the court order explained.
“To the extent that the registrations of voters in the first category are incomplete, the Board is primarily, if not totally, responsible,” the Supreme Court majority agreed.
The elections board learned about the problems with voter registration in 2023 but “did nothing … to ensure that any past violations were remedied,” the order explained.
“The board’s inattention and failure to dutifully conform its conduct to the law’s requirements is deeply troubling,” the Supreme Court majority wrote. “Nevertheless, our precedent on this issue is clear. Because the responsibility for the technical defects in the voters’ registration rests with the Board and not the voters, the wholesale voiding of ballots cast by individuals who subsequently proved their identity to the Board by complying with the voter identification law would undermine the principle that ‘this is a government of the people, in which the will of the people — the majority — legally expressed, must govern.’”
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