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Summary

The North Carolina Supreme Court, in a 5-1 Republican-led decision, blocked certification of Democratic Justice Allison Riggs as the winner of a state Supreme Court race.

Riggs leads Republican Jefferson Griffin by 734 votes after recounts, but Griffin claims 60,000 ballots were illegally cast and seeks to have them invalidated.

The court will now hear Griffin’s challenge, with briefs due by January 24.

Democrats criticized the move as partisan, while the lone Democratic justice dissented, arguing there is no basis to delay certification or disrupt the election process.

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[-] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 53 points 2 days ago

Lol.

We're literally going to let anti-democratic shitstains abuse the fuck out of our institutions, wearing them down, until they can simply assume and not give up power because our institutions are too stretched thin and weakened to do anything about it.

Holy fuck our founding fathers would be utterly ashamed.

If you're a history buff interested in the fall of Rome, this time period in America must be utterly terrifying and fascinating to witness.

[-] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Also 1933 Germany. Although Hitler only got about 35 percent of the popular vote, so facism in the US right now is actually more popular than it was in Germany when the Nazis took over.

[-] samus12345@lemm.ee 42 points 2 days ago

This is how it's going to go down in every Republican-led government from now on. They learned that nobody will do shit to stop them.

[-] denial@feddit.org 9 points 2 days ago

That would have been on voters to stop them for being undemocratic. But nope. Just voting along party lines all the way to hell.

[-] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 181 points 2 days ago

This is what Trumps blabbing about war with Greenland is covering up.

[-] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 38 points 2 days ago

Trump: "oh shit, they're on to me!.... I'M GOING TO INVADE THE ANTARCTIC AND SOUTH GEORGIA ISLAND TOO!!!"

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[-] Cataphract@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 day ago

The only reason this is even a case is because of the National elections and Trump's actions that he was held unaccountable for apparently.

The changes in North Carolina were among the most extensive state voting reforms passed last year and continue a trend among Republican state legislatures, many of which have passed laws since 2021 adding new voting restrictions. The laws were pushed through after former President Donald Trump began falsely claiming that widespread fraud cost him reelection, claims that have resonated with many Republicans.

Democrats in North Carolina and elsewhere have criticized many of the new laws as attacks on voting rights that often target minority and low-income voters. North Carolina’s changes in 2023 were pushed through without any Democratic support by Republican lawmakers who hold a super-majority in the legislature. They overrode a veto by Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper, whose final term ends this year. (link)


If Trump had been held liable for election interference /fraud / misinformation, you wouldn't have people down ballot having the courage to be so shady. If the Democrats actually tried relinquishing some of their control over elections, we might have a system that was fair and honored the citizens participating (they do very little in the way of FPTP problems like informing their base and usually step in to stop changes)

[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 119 points 2 days ago

Sounds like subverting the will of the people. Arm yourselves, friends.

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 29 points 2 days ago

Women, blacks, LGBT folks and other minorities already got the memo. Largest gun buying demographic for years. Suburban white boys need to sign on.

"But they might shoot me!"

They're going to anyway.

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[-] asteriskeverything@lemmy.world 62 points 2 days ago

Cut my life into pieces, this is THE Supreme Court

[-] 0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 47 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Adjudication, no briefing

Don't give a fuck about this proceeding

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[-] inv3r5ion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 days ago

Thank you and the person above you for making me literally LOL

[-] TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee 7 points 2 days ago

The Supreme Court will be compromised for life, legislative is next but is already essentially gamed on a state by state level and a "nation undivided" indoctrination, and the executive just needs to play its part to cement the rich asshole oligarchy state. The only way to fix it is a skewed "democracy" every few years where certain votes count more than others and the population is stupid and saturated by propaganda.

[-] TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee 38 points 2 days ago

But hey, Democrats relinquished power without resistance on January 6th and had a snowball fight, so they are The Real Winners!

It got this bad when things were better, and the democrats of today still seem to be the democrats of two decades ago.

[-] skeezix@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

If the republican had won, it would be all good: no interference just the will of the people.

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[-] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 46 points 2 days ago

Why don't Republicans look like real people? Is there some kind of shop they're made in?

[-] inv3r5ion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 days ago

This dude looks like he needs another punch in the face to straighten it out

[-] BrundleFly2077@sh.itjust.works 21 points 2 days ago

Every single time I see the professional headshots these people use I wonder this exact thing. To ground things in reality for a moment, is there a cultural component to the upper class far right that makes them more likely to undergo multiple cosmetic surgeries?

These aren’t normal heads on these people.

[-] Pazu900@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago

I honestly think a lot of them are sociopaths. Not to say all republicans are sociopaths, but sociopaths are going to lean republican, especially when seeking power like in politics. They don't feel emotions like normal people and it shows in their smiles, which don't look genuine. They're smiling with their mouth but their eyes just look dead.

[-] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 days ago

He looks exactly like a Skibidi toilet

[-] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 4 points 2 days ago
[-] Pazu900@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Weird I understood the difference but I had the two terms mixed up. Thanks for the correction

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[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Inbreeding. When 51% of your base is told their primary purpose is to breed, and they're all prejudiced against people that don't look exactly like them... you get a lot of "low-quality AI" faces and brains.

[-] tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 39 points 2 days ago

Prepare to see a repeat of this in 2028, but federally

[-] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 2 days ago

Nah this won't happen. Because there will likely not be an election. Or there will be an "election" with Trump winning 100% of the vote.

[-] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 6 points 2 days ago

They wouldn't make it that blatant. A sham election is a lot more convincing when they do something like rigging it to ensure Trump wins by razor-thin margins in every swing state.

[-] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 days ago

120% of the vote. Can't set a record for the bestest biggestest vote with a measly 100%

[-] fox2263@lemmy.world 34 points 2 days ago

That man’s picture is off putting

[-] misterdoctor@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

Default preset in a create a character energy

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Looks like we need a Supreme-Supreme Court to solve this issue.

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 38 points 2 days ago

Did you know that in France they call a Supreme Supreme Court “le guillotine?”

[-] tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 2 days ago

We are much more civilized than that

Meme

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[-] Lodespawn@aussie.zone 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

So .. do Americans record who voted what in their elections? Its all well and good to say 60,000 votes were invalid .. but how does he know what they voted? It could be pretty easy to argue that poorly recorded voter details would all be for right wing 'small government' nut jobs that would have voted Republican. Immigrants also tend to be conservative.

Given he's unlikely to be happy that the 60,000 come off his quota, or even with a 50/50 split to cover the fact that no-one knows where they could have come from, does the state have to revote?

I feel like a good campaign ad for Riggs would include "Griffin is a sore loser and is now wasting $X Million and your valuable time going back to revote, he clearly thinks you and your tax dollars are worthless."

[-] zbyte64@awful.systems 12 points 2 days ago

It's simple really, facts don't matter to these people, only power.

[-] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago

Who voted is recorded, but ballots are anonymous and secret, so once they hit the box it's functionally impossible to match them up again, which makes removing and recounting impossible. I assume the goal is a special election due to the number of invalid votes being likely to have affected the election.

[-] 31337@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago

Idk about this specific case, but it's probably targeted on demographics. Mail-in votes tend to swing Democrat. People without ID tend to be poor minorities who swing Democrat. Urban areas swing Democrat. The parties put tons of research into profiling demographics, so they can supress votes and do stuff like this.

[-] Skyrmir@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

They don't have the identity, if I remember right these are mail in ballots with a post date missing or some such. They have the physical ballots they can count, or not.

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