Thousands of voters must check the information during the contested election, NC supreme rules

In the last turn of an prolonged legal battle on a judicial headquarters in Northern Carolina, the Supreme State Court ruled on Friday that thousands of voters had to solve problems with their ballots or risk having launched them. The decision partially confirmed a decision of the lower court and could lead to the overthrow of the November elections.

The military and abroad voters who did not provide an identity document when filing a correspondence ballot – as a judge estimated at 2,000 to 7,000 voters – will have 30 days to solve any problem, tried the court.

But the court also judged that around 60,000 voting bulletins – voters who, without fault, had lacked information in their registration – must be counted.

The case, on a siege at the same Supreme Court, tested the limits of the post-electoral dispute and aroused criticism from the surveillance groups of democracy, liberals and even certain state conservatives, who are concerned with a dangerous precedent. Although the court has protected the largest category of voters whose eligibility was disputed, the number of ballots that remain in question exceeds the thin margin by which the Democratic holder won.

Friday, the decision of 4 to 2 was in response to a plea of ​​the Democratic holder, judge Allison Riggs. She had challenged a decision of the State Court of Appeal last week requiring approximately 65,000 voters of North Carolina to verify their eligibility in a 15 -day window or to vibrate their bulletins. Many affected voters live in democratic counties.

Judge Riggs is one of the two Democrats of the Supreme Court of seven members and has challenged the case. Two recounts from the State Elections Council reaffirmed that she had won the November elections by 734 votes, but his republican opponent, Judge Jefferson Griffin, challenged the result. He is currently a judge of the North Carolina Court of Appeal.