The Slow-Motion Mugging of Allison Riggs

 

I've spent some time trying to grok what the "North Carolina Four" on the state's Supreme Court -- Paul Newby, Phil Berger Jr., Tamara Barringer, and Trey Allen -- decided on Friday in the Griffin v. Riggs rigamarole. And then what was decided yesterday after Riggs appealed in Federal Court. First, the Fab Four overturned the 2-1 decision by the Court of Appeals that accepted Jefferson Griffin's argument that over 60,000 ballots were illegal and must be "cured" to count. Instead, the NC Four accepted those 60,000 ballots as valid, but cherrypicked themselves enough votes cast by mail from overseas by a tranch of liberal sojourners who didn't photocopy their picture ids. The Supreme Court ordered the Court of Appeals to access the eligibility of over 5,500 voters, most of them overseas voters whose absentee ballots were not accompanied by a photocopy of a photo ID or ID Exception Form. Anderson Alerts has a spreadsheet available here listing all the voters whose ballots remain in question, "anywhere from 1,409 to 5,509." There's actually an opportunity to particularly target the "lean-Democratic" vote in the urban counties of Buncombe, Forsyth, and Durham. Challenged voters have 30 days to cure their ballots. Tall order.

Allison Riggs, who won the election by over 700 votes, promptly appealed the Fab Four decision to Federal court, where it landed in front of Judge Richard Myers (who's had a hand in the Griffin v. Riggs case before), a Trump appointee who ordered that the Supreme Court's previous order must proceed, but the election will not be certified until Judge Myers sez it's certified.

Jefferson Griffin is neither a gentleman nor a decent human being. His use of the law has produced a perversion of the law that shows me exactly the kind of "justice" he pursues. He's not fit to sit in judgment of the world's cringiest grin contest.

I don't know what we do when they finalize Griffin's theft of Riggs's election. It's going to feel like Bastille fury rising in the gullet, isn't it? Then what?