NC Policy Watch: “North Carolina Green Party Senate candidate Matthew Hoh says he’s ramping up his campaign now that a federal judge has ordered that the party’s nominees be placed on the 2022 ballot.
“From the very beginning, we have worked towards a speedy resolution to being placed onto the ballot; this is something that should have occurred two months ago,” Hoh said in an email. “We are excited to finally see troubling obstructions to democracy and the democratic process fall to the wayside, so we can lift up the values that compelled me to run as a candidate, in the first place.”
On Friday, U.S. District Court Judge James C. Devers ordered the State Board of Elections to put Hoh and state Senate District 16 candidate Michael Trudeau on this year’s ballot.
The decision comes after the board reversed a prior decision that questioned the validity of some petition entries and officially recognized the party.
Investigators with the board continue to look into whether a portion of the petitions submitted were fraudulent, but in its decision Monday the board heard evidence that there are not enough in question to put the party below the threshold required.”