League of Women Voters Asheville - Buncombe County, NC

The N.C. Supreme Court race is currently being challenged by candidate Jefferson Griffin. He is claiming that roughly 60,000 votes cast in the November Supreme Court are invalid because the voter’s eligibility to cast a ballot cannot be verified. Therefore, the votes should not be counted, asserts Griffin. The Republican Party is also claiming that these votes should be challenged and not counted in already completed (and certified) statewide races.

On January 1, 2025, Protect Democracy filed an amicus brief on behalf of the League of Women Voters of North Carolina and six registered North Carolina voters. These six voters – and a number of the League’s members – are among more than 60,000 registered North Carolina voters whom Griffin, who narrowly lost a hard-fought election, is attempting to disenfranchise, asserting that the voters “never provided the statutorily required information to become lawful voter registrants.”

We want to identify as many voters as possible who are on this list to make sure they have an opportunity to contact their county board of elections to verify their voting status, and so that we can advocate on their behalf in this egregious attempt to manipulate the will of N.C. voters.

Please review the list of 60,000 voters, sorted by county, and fill out this form if you or someone you know is on the list. The League of Women Voters of North Carolina is committed to standing up for voters’ rights, and we are fighting in the courts to ensure that legitimately cast votes are counted.

Thank you for reviewing the list and helping us defend voters’ rights and continue to ensure the public’s confidence in our state’s elections.

In the United States, women are still not guaranteed equal rights. We have seen the devastating consequences of this reality. The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), which will update the US Constitution to protect the equality of rights under the law regardless of sex, can be added to the Constitution with one action. With majority support for the ERA in the House and Senate – and the American public – now is the time. With just weeks left in office, we are urging President Biden to enshrine gender equality in our Constitution by instructing the US Archivist to publish the ERA.

Quick – and we do mean quick! – actions you can do right now to help get the ERA certified:

Click here, scroll down and fill out the form with your information to send President Biden a message. A message you can even personalize if you want. Urge him to tell the US Archivist to certify and publish the ERA in the Constitution!

Click here and fill out the form to tell your members of Congress to sign on to the discharge petition for HJRes 25 which would remove the deadline for ratification of the equal rights amendment.

Click here to sign the petition ‘Add the ERA now’ by texting PIKGST to RESISTBOT at 50409. The first time you use RESISTBOT, it will ask for your name, address, phone number and email to make sure it locates your elected officials correctly.

Click here to share your thoughts with the President.

Click here to tell the White House – the Archivist must publish the ERA.

About the League

The League of Women Voters is a nonpartisan, volunteer-based, political organization consisting of women and men passionate about our democracy. Born out of the national women’s suffrage movement in 1920, the League continues to work to serve the needs of the voting public and protect the rights of all voters.

Our efforts are two-fold:
Voters Service, Citizen Education – presenting unbiased, nonpartisan information about elections, the voting process and current issues.

Action, Advocacy – following education on the issue(s), action is taken towards enacting policies in the public interest and striking down policies harmful to society.

A just society is derived from a democracy consisting of an engaged and educated public that has faith in the political process.