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Even with their gerrymandered districts, they still couldn’t get the NC Supreme Court in 2024.
But they also reelected Justice Allison Riggs, a Democrat, to the North Carolina Supreme Court, by 734 votes. Her challenger, Republican Jefferson Griffin, has refused to concede, even after the two recounts he requested confirmed her win. He is now focusing on getting election officials to throw out the ballots of 60,000 voters, retroactively changing who can vote in North Carolina.
It’s a great piece for North Carolinians or anyone who cares about how easy it is for a political minority, with patience and money, to exert its will on the majority.
She explains from the jump that these tacticts went into play earnestly in North Carolina in 2010. Then jumps back to the 1800s to show how these tactics aren’t that new.
I wonder if they’re more effective in the 21st Century thanks to how rapidly (mis)information moves now.
One upside—Democracy survived back then. I hope it does today as well.
