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"The North Carolina Supreme Court tossed a grenade into the state's election on Monday, violating both state and federal law to grant Robert F. Kennedy Jr's cynical, last-minute removal from the ballot. Its 4-3 decision will compel election administrators to destroy nearly 3 million already-printed ballots that featured Kennedy's name and redesign 2,348 different ballot styles across the state to accommodate the eleventh-hour change. This complex process will significantly delay the distribution of new ballots-which will, in turn, unlawfully abridge early voting for everyone while jeopardizing the voting rights of service members overseas in clear contradiction of federal statute. It's a nightmare for local election officials, who must now disregard the laws they're sworn to uphold.
And it's an affront to North Carolinians at large, whose right to a fair, orderly election has been sabotaged by a lawless court and the candidate it so obviously favors."
