North Carolina Supreme Court pauses ruling to disenfranchise voters
The North Carolina Supreme Court temporarily paused a lower court’s ruling, issued Friday, to disenfranchise tens of thousands of voters in the state’s Supreme Court election, unless they fix their ballots in 15 days.
Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs narrowly won last fall’s state Supreme Court race, even after two recounts. But her opponent, Republican Judge Jefferson Griffin, is seeking to overturn the result by having around 65,000 votes thrown out.
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States continue to fight anti-voting order
Washington and Oregon filed a lawsuit challenging several provisions of Trump’s anti-voting executive order. The states argued the order violates the Constitution and multiple federal laws, including the National Voter Registration Act.
It’s the fifth lawsuit filed over Trump’s order, which election officials and voting rights advocates warn could disenfranchise millions of voters if it’s allowed to stand, in part by making registering to vote and voting by mail more difficult. Several of the earlier lawsuits have been consolidated into one.
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A win for South Carolina voters
The ACLU of South Carolina announced the DMV fixed a policy preventing the processing of voter registrations of residents under age 18 even though they would be eligible to vote in the next general election. The ACLU sued over this issue last year, but withdrew the case. The DMV's general counsel sent a letter last month stating the department had fixed its software and now transmits voter registration information for individuals 16 and older.
