The North Carolina Supreme Court has ordered the counting of tens of thousands of votes in a contested election for a judicial seat.
In a 4–2 ruling handed down on April 11, the state’s highest court said election officials must count votes from people who have been registered since 2004 but have no driver’s license numbers or last four digits of their Social Security numbers on record.
The majority said that a lower court wrongly decided earlier in April that the votes could not be tallied unless the people provided proof of eligibility before a deadline. The majority said that it was the North Carolina State Board of Elections that was at fault for not making sure the voters had presented the numbers….