The North Carolina Supreme Court blocked the state Board of Elections (NCSBE) from certifying the election of Democrat incumbent Justice Allison Riggs to retain her seat on the high court, as the court weighs an election challenge from Republican candidate Judge Jefferson Griffin.
The temporary stay, issued Tuesday after a 5-1 vote (Riggs was recused), granted a Monday request from Griffin to stop the Democrat-run NCSBE from certifying the election, which was scheduled for Friday.
Griffin was leading on election night by about 10,000 votes, but absentee and provisional ballots began trickling in after Election Day, as The Federalist anticipated, eventually giving Riggs her razor-thin, 734-vote lead.
The Republican has filed protests on several different grounds, amounting to about 60,000 ballot challenges statewide. While the NCSBE, along party lines,
