On August 2, the North Carolina Democratic Party sued the State Board of Elections in state court, arguing that the State Board of Elections should not have certified the Green Party for the ballot. North Carolina Democratic Party v North Carolina State Board of Elections, Superior Court, Wake County.
Besides the Democratic Party, there is one voter-plaintiff, a registered Democrat, who says he signed the petition after the circulator mislead him about the purpose of the petition. Here is the Complaint. The Complaint says the Democratic Party has “an interest in competing on a level playing field against other political parties.”
Remember this when you hear Democrats preach about democracy.
It’s “rich” for the NCDemP to invoke the Rethuglican-launched Ninth CD notorious fraud issue as one of its first lines of argument.
Page 2? The footnote that links to the NCGP’s sign-up tips and tools says nothing about “obscuring the NCGP’s ideology and leadership.” Besides, even if that WERE an instruction, it is of itself not fraudulent legally, and not of itself fraudulent morally.
Page 2 and beyond? All the uses of the word “know” assume facts not in evidence and substitute opinion for fact.
Next? The “level playing field” hypocrisy.
That said, at page 8ff, there are actual factual allegations. And, yes, a lot of signatures that look like they’re from the same person. Is it enough to knock the NCGP below the necessary number, as the NCDemP alleges?
The garbage comment on August 3, 2022 at 1:12 pm is from Robert K Stock.
It is legal in North Carolina for the circulator to fill in all the blanks on the petition form for a voter, except the signature. So if the printing of the names and addresses look as though they were made by the same person, that is not evidence of fraud at all. Sometimes the circulators ask the person if it is OK for the circulator to fill in all the blanks except the signature, just to save time.
I agree Arthur. Thank you for clarifying the issue Mr. Winger. Makes sense.
The truth is “the truth” would have no idea whether that was true or not, ergo “the truth” isn’t truthful at all. Prove me wrong.
“The Truth” is still more full of crap than Tom Cruise.
Signed, Jack Nicholson.
The garbage comments on August 3, 2022 at 2:49 pm and 2:59 pm are from Robert K Stock.
Richard, it’s not the other columns that most caught my eye, it IS the signatures. It looks like the two persons named in the complaint didn’t even phone in an attempt to make them look different.
Garbage comment at 3:12 pm
How? Would? You? Know?
Evidence? Proof? Logic? Facts? Truth?
Do you know what any of these are?
Or are you just a bot or fleshbot? A thoughtless sock or meat puppet? Some pavlovian response disconnected from a functioning brain cortex? Who or what are you?
The garbage comment on August 3, 2022 at 4:37 pm is from Robert K Stock.
This Robert K Stock motherfucka is outta hand.
“Besides the Democratic Party, there is one voter-plaintiff, a registered Democrat, who says he signed the petition after the circulator mislead him about the purpose of the petition.”
If a party, or its candidates, are willing to pay filing fees for the costs of being on the ballot, there is less likelihood that a petitioner will have “buyers remorse” after signing a petition.
Since it is in state court, and North Carolina judges are elected in partisan elections, every Democrat judge should recuse. The complaint states that the NCDP has members in every county, which presumably means registered Democrats, a Democrat judge would be presiding over a complaint brought on his behalf by his party.