After months of non-stop rat f%$#ery at all levels of the North Carolina Republican polity, failed Republican state supreme court candidate Jefferson Griffin has finally conceded to Allison Riggs.
It was bullsh%$ from day 1:
183 days later, it was over.
Multiple recounts confirmed that Allison Riggs (D) defeated Jefferson Griffin (R) in a race for a seat on the North Carolina Supreme Court by over 700 votes. Griffin, however, refused to concede, instead arguing that courts should throw out more than 60,000 ballots.
On April 4, Griffin scored a significant victory. The North Carolina Supreme Court agreed to toss 260 ballots identified by the Griffin campaign as "never residents." The court also ruled that a couple of thousand overseas military ballots that were cast without providing a photo ID should not count unless the voter provided proof of their identity within 30 days. Taken together, those two rulings could have reversed the result, particularly since the Griffin campaign was only challenging ballots from four heavily Democratic counties.
On April 15, Popular Information, in collaboration with Anderson Alerts, identified 29 "never residents" who have lived or currently live in North Carolina. The report established the Griffin campaign's errors through voting records, publicly available information, and interviews. "If they wanted to look into this even just a little bit, it's pretty clear that my residence is in Jackson County, [North Carolina]," Josiah Young, one of the purported "never residents," said in an interview. "It's really not that hard to figure that out."
Only if the Republicans wanted to figure this out.
It's not about right, or wrong, or due process, it's about putting their boot on the neck of whoever they see as, "The Other."
These are not the opposition, they are the barbarians at the gates.
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