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NC Republicans Take the Fight to Federal Courts

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After the turmoil that the Board of Elections, Governor Roy Cooper, and Attorney General Josh Stein caused with their so-called settlement, Speaker Tim Moore (R-111) and Senator Berger (R-30) filed suit in Federal court to block the outrageous attempts to change the rules in the middle of an election. If successful, this would prevent the Democrats from derailing our election under the disguise of a “sue and settle” scam.

House Elections and Ethics Chairman Destin Hall offered the following statement on the filing:

“North Carolinians need to be confident that their elected officials will uphold their promise to offer a secure election. Since the Democrats under Roy Cooper’s leadership have made it clear that they want an election filled with chaos, we must now utilize the Federal courts to ensure a secure election absent the sham settlement from the Democrats.”

The lawsuit seeks a temporary restraining order against the scheme and follows a press conference Friday that detailed the secret settlement reached by the Democratic Attorney General with a Democratic Party front group he recently gave the keynote address to at an annual convention – on elections.

When confronted Friday with the stunningly collusive optics of the “settlement” he struck with the top elections attorney for the Democratic Party, Attorney General Stein called a reporter’s concerns “noise.”

The Lawsuit

Over 1 million North Carolinians requested their absentee ballots, and over 220,000 returned them prior to the State Board of Elections attempting to arbitrarily change state law, the lawsuit notes, asserting the consent agreement thus violates the Equal Protection clause of the U.S. Constitution.

The board is administering the election in “an arbitrary and nonuniform manner” that inhibits North Carolinians who have already cast their ballot from voting on an equal basis with citizens who would vote after, the lawsuit contends, actions that would “allow otherwise unlawful votes to be counted, thereby deliberately diluting and debasing lawful votes.”

The filing notes that courts have repeatedly upheld the same statutes the State Board of Elections is now trying to unilaterally reform without authority, and the Rules Review Commission previously rejected their efforts in a unanimous 9-0 vote.

As a “creature of statute,” the lawsuit notes, the state board lacks the power to change state law. “By usurping the General Assembly’s constitutional prerogative to “[p]rescribe” the “Times, Places and Manners” of the federal election, the Board is violating the Elections Clause,” the lawmakers’ complaint asserts.

“This agreement was official action, taken without constitutional or statutory authority, to influence the 2020 election after voting already started is a disgrace to American due process,” Speaker Tim Moore (R-Cleveland) said . “We have asked the court to preserve North Carolinians’ right to a fair and nonpartisan elections system free from backroom schemes launched after over 200,000 voters have already cast their ballots.”

John 16:33 I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”

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