The two candidates in North Carolina’s recent Supreme Court election disagree about the proper forum for resolving a legal dispute involving the election. Democratic candidate Allison Riggs and the North Carolina Democratic Party filed briefs Wednesday evening with the 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals. Both made the case for federal review of the election dispute.
Clients working with Democratic operative Marc Elias’ law firm hope to intervene in a federal lawsuit tied to North Carolina’s still-unresolved state Supreme Court election. The North Carolina Alliance for Retired Americans, VoteVets Action Fund, and three individual voters filed a motion Saturday to intervene as defendants in Republican candidate Jefferson Griffin’s lawsuit against the State Board of Elections.
The US Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division and US Attorney Michael Easley Jr. are stepping into a legal battle pitting state and national Republican groups against the North Carolina State Board of Elections. The controversy involves rules for mail-in absentee ballot envelopes.
State and national Republican groups are urging a federal judge to allow their ballot-envelope lawsuit against the North Carolina State Board of Elections to move forward. The elections board has filed a motion to dismiss the case.
A federal judge has decided to keep a Republican lawsuit targeting rules for North Carolina’s mail-in absentee ballot envelopes in his courtroom. An order Thursday denied Republicans’ request to send the case back to state court.
A retirees’ group represented by Democratic operative Marc Elias’ law firm wants to intervene in a lawsuit Republicans have filed over North Carolina’s rules for mail-in absentee ballot envelopes. The suit contends that state election policy violates a North Carolina law designed to keep mail-in ballots secure.
The Democratic National Committee and a group working with Democratic operative Marc Elias’ law firm both hope to intervene in Republicans’ challenge of newly approved voter identification for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. State elections officials have approved UNC digital IDs to serve as voter IDs for the upcoming election.
