For now, judge temporarily blocks North Carolina's changes to absentee voting. | Adobe Stock
For now, judge temporarily blocks North Carolina's changes to absentee voting. | Adobe Stock
A federal judge blocked the North Carolina Department of Justice's absentee ballot changes temporarily, a release from the House speaker said.
House Speaker Tim Moore (R-Cleveland) claimed in an Oct. 3 release on his website that the attorney general and the governor wrongfully proposed the changes.
“Lawmakers warned that Attorney General [Josh} Stein and Gov. [Roy] Cooper could not be trusted to administer elections law and proposed a Bipartisan Board of Elections to prevent their partisan schemes from being struck with help from radical state court judges – we were right," Moore said in the news release.
The federal authority, U.S. District Judge James Dever, granted the temporary restraining order, saying that it was in the public interest to halt Stein's absentee ballot changes with Cooper's Board of Elections.
“The Governor and Attorney General must immediately stop publishing misleading materials to the public about their scheme – their administrations continue to claim the secret settlement does not eliminate the witness requirement and complies with a federal court order, but neither is true," Moore said in the news release. "Those false claims should be withdrawn, along with this collusive deal, which two federal judges have now agreed amounts to a betrayal of North Carolina voters."
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