{"id":1052406,"date":"2025-04-04T15:12:13","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T19:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1052406"},"modified":"2025-04-04T15:12:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T19:12:14","slug":"dnc-chair-ken-martin-on-the-north-carolina-court-of-appeals-baseless-partisan-attempt-to-toss-out-65000-lawfully-cast-ballots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-chair-ken-martin-on-the-north-carolina-court-of-appeals-baseless-partisan-attempt-to-toss-out-65000-lawfully-cast-ballots\/","title":{"rendered":"DNC Chair Ken Martin on the North Carolina Court of Appeals\u2019 Baseless, Partisan Attempt to Toss Out 65,000 Lawfully Cast Ballots\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today, the North Carolina Court of Appeals <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/news\/politics-government\/article302923039.html\">ruled<\/a> that more than 65,000 eligible voters who cast ballots in North Carolina\u2019s Supreme Court race last year face their ballots being thrown out, and lawful voters have 15 days to \u201cprove\u201d their eligibility. A reminder: Disgraced, losing North Carolina judicial candidate Jefferson Griffin sits on the North Carolina Court of Appeals and justices who donated to Griffin refused to recuse themselves.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>In response to this partisan, baseless decision, DNC Chair Ken Martin issued the following statement:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis partisan decision has no legal basis and is an all-out assault on our democracy and the basic premise that voters decide who wins their elections, not the courts. If upheld, this could allow politicians across the country to overturn the will of the people. North Carolinians chose Allison Riggs to be their North Carolina Supreme Court justice. They won\u2019t stand for Republicans trying to take their votes away or those of active duty North Carolina military. It\u2019s six months past time for Jefferson Griffin to concede this race that he lost.\u201d<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>###<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, the North Carolina Court of Appeals ruled that more than 65,000 eligible voters who cast ballots in North Carolina\u2019s Supreme Court race last year face their ballots being thrown out, and lawful voters have 15 days to \u201cprove\u201d their eligibility. A reminder: Disgraced, losing North Carolina judicial candidate Jefferson Griffin sits on the North [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":293,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1052406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>DNC Chair Ken Martin on the North Carolina Court of Appeals\u2019 Baseless, Partisan Attempt to Toss Out 65,000 Lawfully Cast Ballots\u00a0 - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-chair-ken-martin-on-the-north-carolina-court-of-appeals-baseless-partisan-attempt-to-toss-out-65000-lawfully-cast-ballots\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-04-04T19:12:13+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-04-04T19:12:14+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Shelby Reese\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Shelby Reese\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-chair-ken-martin-on-the-north-carolina-court-of-appeals-baseless-partisan-attempt-to-toss-out-65000-lawfully-cast-ballots\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-chair-ken-martin-on-the-north-carolina-court-of-appeals-baseless-partisan-attempt-to-toss-out-65000-lawfully-cast-ballots\/\",\"name\":\"DNC Chair Ken Martin on the North Carolina Court of Appeals\u2019 Baseless, Partisan Attempt to Toss Out 65,000 Lawfully Cast Ballots\u00a0 - 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