The Republican members of the state elections board who resigned in protest earlier this week gave the public false information, the board’s leader said in an emergency meeting Friday.
He and the other Democrats who remain on the board released documents they claim should prove their version of events.
“Two members of our board resigned their seats, claiming they were misled and did not have all the information,” said Damon Circosta, chair of the N.C. State Board of Elections, adding: “This is not true.”
For example, one of the GOP board members who resigned, Ken Raymond, said he did so because attorneys from the office of Attorney General Josh Stein, a Democrat, had withheld key information from him and the rest of the board. However, one of the formerly confidential documents released Friday shows that that information was actually on the first page of a legal memo Stein’s office sent to board members nearly two weeks ago.
After the elections board waived its attorney-client privilege on those documents Friday to make them public, Stein tweeted that Republican leaders “are lying” about the elections board’s actions “to create mistrust in our elections.”