Amidst the continued noise around the election protests filed by Jefferson Griffin, a rarity has emerged: a fair news article surrounding why this issue is critical to security election integrity and transparency.

Selected excerpts from National Review below:

"The legal positions taken by Griffin’s campaign may be polarizing, but this isn’t a stolen-election conspiracy theory or a case about voter fraud; it’s a more prosaic election-law dispute over which ballots should be legally counted. There’s also a longer history here of a power struggle between North Carolina’s Republican legislature, which writes its election laws, and its Democrat-controlled State Board of Elections (appointed by the governor), which decides which laws it feels like enforcing."

"The main action in the case, which affects 5,509 ballots, involves overseas voters who voted by mail without including a copy of their photo identification. North Carolina law requires photo ID for both in-person voting and absentee balloting. Failure to include ID in an absentee ballot can be cured, but only before Election Day."

"Democrats have fired back by complaining that a lower-court judge not involved in the case has contributed to Griffin’s litigation fund, and that the spouses of two of the Republican justices of the North Carolina supreme court donated the maximum $6,400 apiece to Griffin’s campaign. Naturally, this headlines articles complaining about the appearance of impropriety that mention only far into the article that the husband of the other Democrat on the court donated $2,700 to Riggs’s campaign."

See the full article here.