Posted on 10/11/2023 8:16:54 AM PDT by Red Badger
The Democratic National Committee filed a lawsuit against a recently passed election law in North Carolina, which Republicans argue strengthens election integrity in the state.
Democrats challenged the bill, which was pushed through by GOP supermajorities in the state legislature despite being vetoed by Gov. Roy Cooper (D-NC), in a lawsuit filed on Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of North Carolina against state election officials.
The bill, Senate Bill 747, seeks to strengthen election law in the state by putting absentee ballots under stricter scrutiny of verification, including removing a three-day grace period for mail-in ballots, among other changes.
"Given the multiple infirmities with the challenged provisions of S.B. 747, and because those provisions will inflict irreparable harm by denying North Carolinians their fundamental constitutional right to vote, this Court should declare the challenged provisions unlawful and enjoin their enforcement," the lawsuit said.
The lawsuit alleges violations of the First and 14th amendments to the U.S. Constitution, the Civil Rights Act, the Help America Vote Act, and provisions of the North Carolina Constitution.
One of the key problems the plaintiffs have with the legislation is the ability for ballots for those who register on Election Day to be thrown out if a single verification notice is returned undeliverable, pointing out that for any other day, two notices must be returned as undeliverable.
"S.B. 747 also does not require election officials to try to notify a same-day registrant that his or her application was rejected and that the accompanying ballot will thus be retrieved and discarded. Nor does it establish any mechanism for the registrant to challenge the rejection as erroneous. This again is different from the rule for non-same-day registrants, who may generally appeal adverse determinations to county boards of elections," the lawsuit said.
Cooper said in a statement expressing his opposition to the bill that it had "nothing to do with election security and everything to do with Republicans keeping and gaining power."
Cheating democrap SCUM
The GOP needs to sue the DemonRATS.
Deceit is their middle name.
Yo. If they can’t be bothered to register until election day they better do everything correct because there is no time to fix mistakes. Leftists abhor common sense.
How does the DNC have any standing?
They are Democrats. It's automatic, axiomatic, metastatic and autocratic.......................
These people fight to win.
Law passed.
Dem NC Supreme Court makes a goofy injunction to stop it.
NC Supreme Court is voted Republican.
Law passed.
NC Dems sue in federal court to overturn.
>How does the DNC have any standing?<
That is the question. Is this an admission that cheating is normal for democrats, or that their voters are too stupid to follow the rules?
EC
Democarts hate it when means and mehods for cheating are being closed off.
A “right to vote” is not a right to vote any way or when you want.
Legislatures are the “due process” means of enacting the laws. A law you disagree with is not a violation of due process, just a violation of what you want. Too bad.
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