Ballot Access News – Disputed North Carolina Judicial Election Goes to Fourth Circuit

Apr 162025
 

On April 15, Allison Riggs, the winner of the North Carolina November 2024 State Supreme Court judicial race (according to official election returns), appealed to the Fourth Circuit for a stay of the U.S. District Court order that permits further judgment of thousands of the ballots. Griffin v Riggs and North Carolina State Board of Elections, 25-1397 and 25-1398.

The issue is whether the State Supreme Court violated the U.S. Constitution last week when it invalidated some overseas and miliatry absentee ballots and put others under a legal cloud.

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Ballot Access News – COFOE Is Now Forty Years Old

Apr 162025
 

COFOE, the Coalition for Free & Open Elections, is now 40 years old. COFOE is a loose coalition of some of the nation’s nationally-organized minor parties, plus other organizations that support tolerant ballot access. The founding meeting to bring such an organization into existence was held February 9, 1985, at 113 University Place, New York. Representatives of the Citizens, Communist, Humanist, Libertarian, New Alliance, Populist, and Socialist Party attended, along with Art Eisenberg of the New York Civil Liberties Union.
The March 16 meeting, also held in New York, created the Statement of Principles.
The May 11 meeting, also held in New York, chose the name “Coalition for Free & Open Elections.”
Back then, before the internet and e-mail,…

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