Democrats sue over 'unlawful and arbitrary' ballot rejection in North Carolina

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Source: American Independent



By Emily Singer -September 10, 2020 9:37 AM

A coalition of Democratic groups aims to prevent disenfranchisement in the November general election.

A trio of Democratic groups sued the North Carolina State Board of Elections this week, alleging that the state is engaging in the "unlawful practice of rejecting absentee ballots based on irrelevant technicalities, and then arbitrarily denying certain voters the opportunity to address these minor errors."

According to the lawsuit, filed on Tuesday by the North Carolina Democratic Party, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, voters can currently correct mismatched signatures on questioned ballots, but if the ballot is missing a witness or the address of a witness, then it is rejected.

The suit notes that a suit filed in May held "that the enforcement of numerous North Carolina elections statutes in the November 2020 election violated numerous federal constitutional rights, including the right to vote protected by the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution." The current suit alleges that a Cure Memo issues by the North Carolina Board of Elections fails to remedy the issues.

Published with permission of The American Independent Foundation.

"In practice, this means that if a voter submits a ballot that does not comply with the state's witness requirement — including not printing the witness's name, not printing the witness's address, failure of the witness to sign, or even having the witness sign on the wrong line — they will have to wait to receive and then cast an entirely new ballot," Marc Elias, a top voting rights attorney who is representing the Democratic groups in the lawsuit, said in a release announcing the legal challenge. "Voters who do not have enough time to cast a replacement ballot will not be notified at all that their ballot was thrown out."

Read more: https://americanindependent.com/north-carolina-mail-in-voting-ballot-rejection-lawsuit-democrats/

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I really do hate ratfucking republicans.....................

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1. In Colorado, you know exactly where you stand with your ballot. You can go to the site to

make sure you're still active & that your info. is correct. E-mails are sent letting you know when your ballot will be mailed out, when it's received etc. There's lots of communication going on. There's NO REASON why North Carolina can't do the same! WOW! They're really behind the times living in the stone ages...

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2. Same in California

Some of these states elections systems are shockingly archaic.

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3. Just like they do in Banana Republics .