That's how DICTATORS operate! Look at Putin, he's the EXACT SAME way! Look at Kim Jong UN, SAME way! WAKE UP America! Trump is taking us DEEPER INTO FACISM EVERY DAY he remains in office! He MUST BE IMPEACHED NOW before MORE DAMAGE is DONE!🤬
We have to put pressure on the GOP by getting in their FACE & REMIND them that they are BETRAYING their Country & their Constituents by going along with Trump! We need do it every time they're in public, writing to them and calling them! We MUST be as RELENTLESS as they are!
To add: is there any link with actions for people who don’t live in NC? I lived there for 12 years but I just moved away last summer, and all the materials being shared are for NC residents.
a scared fascist is a good fascist, but beware. they get a bit rowdy and trigger happy when they are deeply into the fear/paranoia. that being said. speak truth to power.
Re. US military members stationed overseas. Many face challenges like time and distance, making it difficult to submit the required legal ID. This could lead to federal courts getting involved and raise constitutional concerns.
Federal law, esp d UOCAVA, protects military voters’ rights no matter where they are. Challenging their eligibility undermines these protections and risks disenfranchising those who serve our country.
In cases like League of Women Voters v. North Carolina (2016), federal courts upheld military voting rights against state challenges. The League won the case, demonstrating that federal courts can intervene to protect voters’ rights.
I hope this helps; I’m just trying to assist. 💙💙💙
This is unbelievably outrageous. They will stop at nothing short of murder to win. God damned bastards…no apologies for my language this time. I just donated to her webpage.
The North Carolina Court of Appeals has ruled, in a 2-1 decision, that more than 60,000 votes cast in last year’s tightly contested state Supreme Court race must now be verified and recounted. This comes after two recounts already confirmed the original outcome.
The ruling stems from a challenge by Republican candidate Jefferson Griffin, who lost the race and is now contesting the eligibility of tens of thousands of voters—many of whom are active-duty military members.
This is not just an attack on the outcome—it’s an attack on the right to vote. We have many in our coalition volunteering online tomorrow to call these voters and help ensure their ballots are counted. We’ll drop a link to sign up—please join us in reaching every single voter on this list.
I took a photo of the map, showing the homes in our neighborhood where the votes were at risk. My husband posted it in the neighborhood Facebook group. Just another way of getting the word out.
Thank you for sharing! Also, if your name is on the list, the onus is on you to contact your local board of elections to resolve it: https://vt.ncsbe.gov/BOEInfo/
@aaronparnas.bsky.social @meidastouch.com @meidasjordy.bsky.social help get this word out !!! Thank you @altnps.bsky.social she is fighting back but needs help !!
If you have the right to vote and you cast a ballot improperly, you're being given the right to make your ballot proper so it can be counted... Instead of just throwing the ballots out, he's letting people resubmit.
The ballots were NOT faulty. This is based on a single piece of data that may be missing on their registration. There's already been TWO recounts, he lost both. So now he's claiming their ballots are ineligible because they did not include their phone number
To clarify, the 15 day period does not begin until the case goes back to the district court, the court orders all the local agencies to notify the voters, and those notices go out. Then the 15 day period starts. (It is a bad willing, but the period does not start today.)
I assume "active military" refers to overseas mail-in ballots. Having only a 15-day window shows that either: they aim to invalidate as many of these votes as possible (overseas voters vote D more than any group); or they haven't got the faintest clue about life beyond US borders or military life.
All he's doing is having voters who improperly filled out their ballots fix their ballots. If they want their votes counted and they didn't do it right, he's giving them a chance to fix the issues so their votes can be counted.
as soon as I voted last mnth in the spec election in FL which was a big 1 for a house seat, my vote was rejected for non-sig or sig not matching. That never happened in 15 yrs of mail in voting as a mil dep. I was sent a form in the mail to sign & sub an id copy. I just happened to see it in time.
To be clear, I like Boards of Elections and their tools.
BUT internal records can have minor clerical errors or not match against records from other agencies. Big data sets, it happens. These problems don’t always show when a voter looks in the public site.
I hate everything about Republicans, but their attempts to nullify votes to steal elections incenses me the most. Voting is the most fundamental pillar in democracy.
I have followed this case closely. All contested votes are in blue counties. Over 200 former judges, attorneys, and law professors (including former governors) from both parties sent Griffin a letter asking him to concede the election. The Griffin List, are you on it? https://thegriffinlist.com
Recounts count the illegal ballots along with the illegal. That's why audits are different than recounts. Audits will separate the illegal ballots from the legal ones and exclude them from the count.
Just thinking out loud: We know what MAGAts would do if the shoe were on the other foot. And they must be able to not get caught. And it appears to work. Hmmm?
Thanks for sharing this. Can anyone clarify: is Griffin having ENTIRE ballots discarded or JUST the votes for this NC Supreme Court seat? Obviously, neither is ok, but I’m having trouble finding a definitive answer.
"Griffin's attorneys have said previously that removing the challenged ballots would favor their client and likely make him the winner. The ballots challenged on the ID mandate, for example, largely came from Democratic-leaning counties."
Of the 3 categories that were challenged "the judges directed that the state board give voters in two of the categories 15 business days to provide their missing information or photo identification. If the information is provided in time, then those ballots would still count, the opinion reads."
Thanks for sharing this. Still wondering: is the whole ballot being tossed—ie school board up to presidential votes—or is the demand is solely about the votes in that particular Supreme Court race? How can a ballot be fine for all the other races but not for this one?
Thanks for this point. I’m struggling to make it make sense. How could the ballots be viable for all of those other races but not for this one? The math isn’t mathing.
Pretty sure it's just the supreme court race: "More than 61,000 voters challenged by NC Supreme Court candidate Jefferson Griffin have 15 business days to prove their eligibility, or have their ballots removed *from the count in Griffin’s 2024 bid to unseat Justice Allison Riggs*"
That is an insane request from a court: ask tjousands of random voters 6 months after an election to send in ID to a random court so that the election isn't rejected?? Burn that courthouse down. No.
Please watch the documentary
‘viliantes, inc’ on YouTube by reported Greg Pallast.
It’s very informative on how this is happening and who is making it happen.
This distrust is also part of the plan. Any society only works when everyone trusts or 'buys into' the mechanisms put in place. For example; money is only worth anything because whole societies have a social agreement that it is.
My State. My vote counted I checked. This POS is; in front of the world, trying to STEAL an election. Felon did it. Why shouldn’t he try, right? We are fighting back. This is not a f’n dictatorship. He lost. 😡
I can understand how it can be anonymous & you still have verification that your vote was counted, but if votes can still be traced back to people required to ‘cure’ them - after the counting - then how can they be anonymous?
Hi Lisa. This year we had to show ID. Prior to that, we just said our names. I didn’t know anonymous voting existed. Just googled and it seems being alone at the voter machine is anonymous. You got me going down a bunny hole 😂. Getting educated & confused at the same time 🤦🏻♀️ 💙✌🏼
In the UK, you have to prove you are the person registered, but your vote is on an anonymous ballot paper which you put in the box. Same with mail-in, envelope is bar coded to you, but once that is accepted as valid the ballot paper is anonymous & divorced from your IDable paperwork to be counted.
I think where the "anonymous" part comes in is when you are physically casting your vote. Nobody has the right to stand over your shoulder & watch. But they have to know who casts votes, & for whom; otherwise it would be simple to just run hundreds of anon. ballots thru after hrs to change results.
"In every state, voters have the right to a secret ballot either in the state constitution or a state statute. So when you go to vote, your name is not associated with your ballot. The ballot is anonymous. When it is tabulated, it won't be connected back to you,"
But once they’ve done the counting the only way to throw out votes as being cast by people not properly registered is if they know who the votes were cast for.
It’s different if these votes haven’t been counted, but there’s been a count & 2 recounts.
No, you misunderstand. No one, not even Jefferson Griffin, knows who these 60,000+ people voted for. He just _thinks_ based on where they live that they are more likely to have voted for the Democrat, Justice Riggs. Kind of like Bournemouth is more conservative than Manchester. 1/2
No person deserves what Putin has done to his own neighbors. He has sent tens of thousands to be killed in the meat grinder that is Ukraine. He kills those who speak the truth. And MAGA loves Putin.
PS I was rhetorical. I don't endorse murder of anyone - even monsters. I think it was WEAK when the US murdered Osama Bin Laden instead of bring him into a fair public trial to answer for his actions. While I wouldn't cry for a monster like Osama or Putin I think justice should be better than that.
They messed with the last election on many levels via suppression, manipulation, fraud, hacking tabulators, bomb threats etc. They’ve already bragged about bc they believe we can’t do anything about it now they’ve captured all branches of gov
The NC republican party is in the middle of a shit show of eating each other. There are lawsuits galore, FB fighting, newspaper articles about each otherr, it is quite fascinating to watch
Insider trading: Trump telling us he’s going to tank the markets; “it’s part of my plan”. He has to tell us when he’s going to make it better then, right?
Of course! They going to keep cheating and cheating, and stone walling and mudding waters until they “win”!Thats why they can’t be allowed to stay for 4 more years! No way!
Find out here 👇 if you are one of the North Carolina voters affected. And if you don't live there but know someone who does, forward this website to them. Thanks!
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Keep ☎️,📧, 📠 to your Congressional members as a voter & also in conjunction with every group you belong in even on the outskirts of it..with SLPs, OT, PT…to write ✍️ letters as a group on issues. US is O at the Medicaid cuts, the HHS fiasco! MAGAt voter # R small 1/3 that’s losing ground quickly.
Just protesting has already done so much for our country. So I’m not sure what you’re talking about. We can thank protesting for ending segregation, the civil rights movement, women’s rights…
Exactly! Plus it sucks sitting around, feeling miserable about the US after we voted and helped in the last election and still lost. I can’t just sit around doing nothing and just scream into the echo chamber.
What's kind of funny is that if it's 60k votes, obviously about half of them are going to be GOP voters who probably voted for the conservative judge? So, if they're notification game and response from those voters aren't as good as the D's side, the winner might even gain more?
NC resident here. It's not half and half. The voters on the list have been cherry picked so that the list skews toward Democrats. There are Republicans on the list but not as many as Democrats by far.
So you say they probably picked out certain zip codes that they knew there information told them were heavy democrat? And they're allowed to list just those voters? I wonder how that's allowed by the courts? This whole thing stinks. Your Supreme Court should reverse appeals court within days
It stinks. The NC Supreme Court "should" reverse, but won't. There are 5 Rs on the NC Supreme Court and 2 Ds. One Democrat is Riggs who has recused herself. One R did rule against last time. Even if they manage to tie, ruling reverts back to Appeals Court. Likely headed to US Supreme Court.
How well understood is it there that some people need to correct their ballots or lose their vote?
15 days does not seem fair. Should be at least a month, IMO.
It should be at least a month. The ruling hasn't actually gone into effect yet, so confusing in terms of messaging. I've phone-banked twice to make people on the list aware that they were on it. We couldn't tell them, "Fix your registration," because that would - at the time - have misleading.
Thank you for reaching out to people and thanks for getting back to me. This is so wrong. These people are like toddlers when they don't get their way. Well, this isn't losing at Candyland! And we can't let this stand.
I read phone bank sign ups at capacity!! Good on you all!
They are toddlers, but if only that were all! If this works, it is a playbook for disenfranchisement. NC is a proving ground for shenanigans. Extreme gerrymandering means that even though a majority vote for Ds in state elections, we have an R majority. Courts are the 1 way to fight. A lot at stake.
Actually believe that. Wouldn't doubt it to put it past them to use their computers to hand pick out mostly Democrat voters in the challenge. I don't know how they would do that, but it's possible maybe?
More than likely I'd say. If they look at blue counties or districts that's easy enough. Or, they apparently have a method where they look for names like Smith or Jefferson or perhaps other type names, but even with that, it seems that they'd have to narrow it down to blue areas.
Fucking NC has been under occupation for years now. The captured legislature & state high court have made sure of it. Disenfranchising voters every step. Only way any of these horror shows hold power. Voter suppression is alive and well.
My NC US Representative was gerrymandered out of his seat! 😡 Now my district goes further south to include an area where the highest hate group leader lived. 😡 I can’t even!!
I recently saw an interview with the winner, Alison Riggs. She said the downside is that most of these voters are deployed and don’t have access to email or time to sit to “cure” their ballots.
Getting ready? We need to act soon. Beyond walking around with signs (although ok). There are plenty of Fox News and affiliate targets. Have you seen their reporting this week. Def. N. Korea shit. Time to eliminate one cause if the problem. Take a look if you haven’t. Pure Nazi. Time to burn. 🔥
Thank you for amplifying, from someone who lives in this crazy state. It’s all about taking over the Supreme Court, which they want to hold onto for all time, thus gerrymandering, and - ultimately – turning NC over to the Christian nationalists.
It's not that they can't accept the loss. It's that they think they can win by cheating and are willing to do it. They don't care about the people, only the power.
This is where Dems run around curing ballots. Why aren’t the Dems demanding that ballots be cured in red districts? Fight fire with fire. We need to go on the offensive.
FWIW, some of the people on the list are in my hometown which is in a very red district. This very thing happened in Georgia, where I live now. The game is to shave margins across the board, estimating that blue districts will be more affected, not targeting only blue districts
Unfortunately because of the judges basically giving no time and no real notice to the people affected to get the legal votes fixed he will win by this cheating.
✊🏻✊🏻She looks like such a wonderful person, too, she's been on all of the news circuit lately. We really need her win to hold 💙 and sore losers need to have a limit to counts and should have to pay her legal fees. 😡
Please please please tell them to add PayPal option. ActBlue has terrible reputation (charges of criminal fraud) and I don’t trust them with card info.
There were investigations and then in Dec 2024 they finally strengthened the platform security, but I remain wary. I’m just tired of all these applications/platforms wanting my financial info on file. I’d rather have it one place and know who to go after if hacked.
I just looked them up and saw a NYT article about an exodus of leadership there and also an investigation initiated by some Republican Congressman related to security. Sounds like an attempt to weaken Dem fundraising at heart. 1/2
Thank you NPS and thank everyone who jumped in to help in NC. This might be the new reality for us to deal with and I’m proud of the pushback, resistance, and effort. 🙏🙏🙏
I know! How many weeks has this been going on? It is fucking ridiculous. They're like nagging spoiled children-and sadly they often, because they're so persistent and annoying,get their way.
They knew it was an inevitability that their plans would be unpopular. They need the courts under their thumb or none of their longer term plans will work. It’s hard to be a fascist state if your courts won’t let you violate human rights and the constitution. #resist #3E
This is real. I live in Raleigh. I’m not on the list, but people are posting on the community pages who are. One woman yesterday said she provides her driver’s license and voter card every time she votes, and did in this election too. And she’s on the list. It’s insane.
I’m still wondering how that political consulting firm Coldspark was allowed to access 10s of 1000s of voter registration records in order to find clerical errors that they could target. Not publicly searchable “voter lookup” but internal boe records.
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I hope this helps; I’m just trying to assist. 💙💙💙
It's a great state with a horrible majority party!
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/12/27/14078646/north-carolina-political-science-democracy
And please spread the word across North Carolina.
Voter Disenfranchisement
This is about a super-technicality on their registrations.
The people funding this crap will do it wherever they can.
Please CONTACT your board of elections to make sure they have your info correct & linked. Do NOT rely on public voter lookup.
BUT internal records can have minor clerical errors or not match against records from other agencies. Big data sets, it happens. These problems don’t always show when a voter looks in the public site.
Your BoE WANTS you to vote. Contact them
"Griffin's attorneys have said previously that removing the challenged ballots would favor their client and likely make him the winner. The ballots challenged on the ID mandate, for example, largely came from Democratic-leaning counties."
Headlines sometimes write themselves.
Votes cast should be semi anonymous, not called to verify because there is a sore loser.
A wombo combo
Defund and troll.
Yarvins Substack is called gray mirror. Troll away.
lol.
It’s rhetorical. I’m mostly asking myself .
( who else could I be talking to with this hunkajunk in my hand?!?)
‘viliantes, inc’ on YouTube by reported Greg Pallast.
It’s very informative on how this is happening and who is making it happen.
Trump being president was just the beginning of their shenanigans.
https://bsky.app/profile/dontbeevil.bsky.social/post/3lm4hvjpwqc2e
I can understand how it can be anonymous & you still have verification that your vote was counted, but if votes can still be traced back to people required to ‘cure’ them - after the counting - then how can they be anonymous?
I’m puzzled.
https://www.npr.org/2024/10/04/nx-s1-5129679/can-someone-find-out-whom-you-voted-for-explained
It’s different if these votes haven’t been counted, but there’s been a count & 2 recounts.
So US voting is NOT anonymous.
Unlike in the free world.
https://www.ncsbe.gov/information-voters-challenged-election-protest
January 6 is gonna look like a frat party.
Now is the time to make a whole lotta buncha noises.
Voter suppression looks like a big issue.
https://youtu.be/QDWwLDejg8Y
If you're willing to ensure we will -- we will.
We The People ... etc.
🇺🇸We the People will not be ignored.🇺🇸
We're talking about professional grifters here.
They're gonna grift, lie, cheat, pillage and plunder in every single way possible.
Expect this.
Show up.
#griffinisaloser
Clean em up.
Show them how it's really used to make their ditty deeds useless and watch those cockroaches scurry from the light.
NC Court of Appeals has ruled, in a 2-1 decision, that more than 60,000 votes must now be verified and recounted.
They're ignoring the recounts that confirmed the original outcome.
https://www.commoncause.org/north-carolina/press/new-online-tool-helps-nc-voters-find-out-if-their-ballot-is-challenged-by-jefferson-griffin/
https://www.fiftyfifty.one/
What more can be done??
tRump is golfing while America burns.
We already have the blueprints for digging out of a depression, we learned in the 30s and 40s.
And there is reason to have hope. All those people in the streets felt hopeless once, didn't they?
Take that hopelessness and convert it to righteous anger and spite. We keep going IN SPITE of them.
We have hope IN SPITE of them.
And we organize to spite them.
and he's golfing, not organizing.
15 days does not seem fair. Should be at least a month, IMO.
I read phone bank sign ups at capacity!! Good on you all!
But keep counting until they win 🤬🤬🤬🤬
https://www.riggsforourcourts.com/
UNITE THEM IN SOLIDARITY to remove Donny and Elon, protests and judges can't do much against lawless powerful oligarchs and their brainwashed peons.
ENOUGH of these FASCISTS!
Or more accurately, a Republican coup.