About 800 people turned out on a bitterly cold day to protest the attempted overturning of a free and fair election for NC Supreme Court.
On a bitterly cold winter day, some 800 people turned out at Pack Square Park to protest the attempt to overturn a free and fair election for NC Supreme Court justice by Jefferson Griffin, who lost the election to incumbent Allison Riggs. Jefferson claims that 60,000 votes — already cast and certified — should be tossed out because the registrations of these voters were mission a telephone number or other information that didn’t used to be required. Jefferson claims that after the law changed to require this information, everyone whose registration did not include the information should be disenfranchised.
“This is unprecedented,” Board of Elections member Jake Quinn told the audience. “If it’s allowed, it means the rules can change after the game is played.”
Speakers also included four voters who have discovered their votes are among those being challenged. One of the speakers, Peter Billingsley, is a retired high school civics teacher who spent a career teaching about the importance of voting.
The rally was sponsored by Common Cause, with the NC Poor People’s Campaign cosponsoring. In Asheville, other cosponsors included the League of Women Voters and the Interfaith Voter Action Network.
– Leslie Boyd, co-chair Western Circle NC PPC
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