He’s Baaaack!

He’s baaaack! Marc Elias – the same Democratic Party lawyer who helped engineer the 2020 collusive settlement to change state election laws – looks to be running the same play again.

He’s working with the very same retiree “advocacy” group, the North Carolina Alliance for Retired Americans, that led the corrupt 2020 sue-and-settle scheme that changed absentee ballot requirements after voting was already underway.

The band got back together and filed suit this week against the State Board of Elections over voter residency rules.

Per WRAL, “The state requires people to live in North Carolina for 30 days before they can vote. But the North Carolina Alliance for Retired Americans says that, too, is unconstitutional in a lawsuit filed Monday in federal court.”

It has all the makings of the same “sue-and-settle” scheme that threw North Carolina into chaos in the run-up to the 2020 election. The scheme goes like this: Democratic Party super-lawyer sues an agency run by a bunch of likeminded partisans, then agency lawyers negotiate a “settlement” in the case that, surprise!, accomplishes the policy goals they all share but the legislature opposes.

Multiple federal judges excoriated the behavior of the State Board of Elections in dealing with Elias and his lawsuit in 2020. One wrote, “At bottom, the [Board of Elections] has ignored the statutory scheme and arbitrarily created multiple, disparate regimes under which North Carolina voters cast absentee ballots.”

This may well be another shameless collusion effort to invent new laws governing elections.

BEWARE!