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ballot. This would mean that they would not be able to place their own candidates for any race in the 2024 elections at the time. The
Democratic led board claimed to be concerned about the party’s address being listed as the address of its petition instead of the state chair’s. Board members did take issue that Pisano’s address on the petition sheets were outdated, but Pisano attempted to get clarification from the state board for three years without a response. The party notified the state board that some county boards of elections did not follow the procedures and processes regarding petition drives. The party has sent evidence for every problem that has occurred. The state board also claimed that the Justice For All Party and We The People Party might have tricked voters to sign their petitions. Prior to the meeting, groups tied to the Democratic Party such as Clear Choice Action claimed to have discovered thousands of invalid signatures for the Justice for All Party and a supposed report of a Republican activist stating the party would help Donald Trump win North Carolina for the presidency. The North Carolina Democratic Party also challenged the signatures of the We The People Party for supposedly circumventing the unaffiliated petition requirements by forming a party as the signature requirement for unaffiliated candidates would be approximately 85,000. The state board of elections previously rejected certification of the green party in 2022, but the party won its lawsuits to be placed back on the ballot. On July 1, Congressman Bryan Steil, chair of the U.S. House Administration Committee, and Congressman Jim Jordan, chair of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee, sent a letter to the Chair and Administrator of the North Carolina State Board of Elections requiring them to produce all documents relating to the decision of the Board not to certify the three parties even though they all had enough valid signatures.
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Carolina, and Green Party of North Carolina demanding the certification of the three parties in question. On July 9, the Constitution Party of North Carolina was unanimously certified with enough valid signatures to do so while the Justice For All Party and We the People Party faced another delay during the July 9th board meeting. The Constitution Party of North Carolina has been given until July 23 to submit all of its candidate nominations. The party’s candidates include Walter Vinny Smith for governor and Wayne Jones for lieutenant governor. The party also nominated 3 additional candidates in a letter to the State Board, but the party did not want to disclose their names until it was recognized. The party also reserved the right to nominate additional candidates if given additional time. Members of the Republican Party and Justice for All Party were outraged with the decision to delay certification of Justice For All and We The People, citing the rejections and maneuvers to reduce the number of verified signatures as either illegal or politically motivated. There have also been calls from the Libertarian Party of North Carolina for the resignations of the three democratic board members: Alan Hirsch, Siobhan O’Duffy Millen, and Jeff Carmon. The We The People Party would be certified by a 4-1 vote while the Justice For All Party would be rejected by a 3-2 vote during the July 16 State Board of Elections Meeting.
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email mentions a statement from the board of elections that the petition tracker “..... is merely an indicator provided for public benefit and does not establish, legally, the status of a petition campaign.” The state board of elections stated that there was an “innocent coding error” on the petition module due to pulling data from the party’s previous efforts to gain recognition, but the old signatures are no longer valid. The board also stated that “...it is the party’s responsibility to ensure they have enough signatures to reach the threshold set in law.” Pisano stated that if they had known about this information earlier, it could have spent the last two weeks collecting the signatures necessary to recover its lost numbers. 2,000 signatures were removed from the petition search due to a "glitch" in the system. The party was given until May 17th at 5 PM to collect and resubmit signatures to the county boards of elections. Since then, the party has been able to reach the threshold once again and has planned to hold a meeting in June to consider ballot access while reviewing the party’s signatures.
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signatures, the party would need to meet with the State Board of
Elections before the party can be recognized. The party turned in almost 15,000 valid signatures to the county boards of elections according to the State Board of Elections’ petition page at the time. At that time, the party would have needed to nominate candidates by the July 1 deadline during their party convention if it had been certified. The Chairman, Al Pisano noted that there are challenging legal loopholes the party would need to go through in a short amount of time because of deadlines. He also states that this is the most patriotic thing to do and that they are honoring the soldiers who have given them the right to not be held captive to the establishment parties.
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Jerry R. Jones- Greene County Commissioner - 3,232 votes (52.47%) (Winner)
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548:"Constitution Party of North Carolina | State Executive Committee"
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Allen Poindexter- NC State House, District 90 - 1,333 votes (4.98%)
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Peggy Lanier- Pender County Commissioner - 6,959 votes (36.94%)
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Mark A. Crowe - NC State House, District 42 - 437 votes (2.56%)
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980:"Application to Recognize Three New Parties in North Carolina"
740:"North Carolina Constitution Party Wins Ballot Access Lawsuit"
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