The panel’s lone Democrat, Judge Toby Hampson,
“Changing the rules by which these lawful voters took part in our electoral process after the election to discard their otherwise valid votes in an attempt to alter the outcome of only one race among many on the ballot is directly counter to law, equity, and the Constitution,
A Republican-dominated panel on North Carolina’s Court of Appeals ruled on Friday that as many as 61,588 valid votes in last year’s election for the state Supreme Court should be retroactively tossed out. The decision could overturn Democrat Allison Riggs’ victory and hand a win to the second-place finisher, Republican Jefferson Griffin.
The panel’s lone Democrat, Judge Toby Hampson, issued a blistering dissent excoriating his Republican colleagues, who left their opinion unsigned.
“Every single voter challenged by [Griffin] in this appeal, both here and abroad, cast their absentee, early, or overseas ballot by following every instruction they were given to do so,” he wrote.
“Changing the rules by which these lawful voters took part in our electoral process after the election to discard their otherwise valid votes in an attempt to alter the outcome of only one race among many on the ballot is directly counter to law, equity, and the Constitution,” he continued.
Hampson also blasted the idea that affected voters could realistically “cure” their ballots as “a fiction that does not disguise the act of mass disenfranchisement the majority’s decision represents.”
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The panel’s lone Democrat, Judge Toby Hampson, issued a blistering dissent excoriating his Republican colleagues, who left their opinion unsigned.
“Every single voter challenged by [Griffin] in this appeal, both here and abroad, cast their absentee, early, or overseas ballot by following every instruction they were given to do so,” he wrote.
“Changing the rules by which these lawful voters took part in our electoral process after the election to discard their otherwise valid votes in an attempt to alter the outcome of only one race among many on the ballot is directly counter to law, equity, and the Constitution,” he continued.
Hampson also blasted the idea that affected voters could realistically “cure” their ballots as “a fiction that does not disguise the act of mass disenfranchisement the majority’s decision represents.”
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