{"id":146170,"date":"2025-04-25T21:10:47","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T21:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=146170"},"modified":"2025-04-25T21:10:50","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T21:10:50","slug":"federal-appeals-court-halts-ballot-curing-in-north-carolina-supreme-court-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=146170","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Federal Appeals Court Halts Ballot Curing in North Carolina Supreme Court Election&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.democracydocket.com\/news-alerts\/appeals-court-north-carolina-supreme-court-ballot-curing-halt-riggs-griffin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Democracy Docket<\/a>: &#8220;A federal appeals court blocked North Carolina from beginning&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.democracydocket.com\/news-alerts\/jefferson-griffin-moves-to-disenfranchise-more-north-carolina-voters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ballot curing<\/a>&nbsp;as part of Republican candidate Jefferson Griffin\u2019s effort to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.democracydocket.com\/opinion\/republicans-are-trying-to-steal-an-election\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">overturn<\/a>&nbsp;the results of the state\u2019s 2024 Supreme Court race.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">A three-judge panel of the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals voted Tuesday 2-1 to order the state not to mail any notices to the roughly&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.democracydocket.com\/news-alerts\/in-promising-news-for-riggs-north-carolina-cuts-number-of-ballots-at-risk-of-rejection\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1,400 voters<\/a>&nbsp;whose ballots are included in the state\u2019s cure process while litigation over Democrat Allison Riggs\u2019 narrow victory continues in federal court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Judges Toby Heytens and Paul Niemeyer \u2014 who were appointed by former Presidents Joe Biden and George H. W. Bush, respectively \u2014 approved the halt, while Trump-appointee Judge Marvin Quattlebaum dissented.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The panel\u2019s order came after Riggs\u2019 campaign had asked the court to put the cure process on hold.\u00a0&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democracy Docket: &#8220;A federal appeals court blocked North Carolina from beginning&nbsp;ballot curing&nbsp;as part of Republican candidate Jefferson Griffin\u2019s effort to&nbsp;overturn&nbsp;the results of the state\u2019s 2024 Supreme Court race. A three-judge panel of the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals voted Tuesday 2-1 to order the state not to mail any notices to the roughly&nbsp;1,400 voters&nbsp;whose ballots&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146171,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146170\/revisions\/146171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}