A number of legal challenges have delayed North Carolina’s state Supreme Court race, delaying the call for a seat now two months after the 2024 election.
Jefferson Griffin, the Republican candidate who is narrowly trailing in the race, has asked the state Supreme Court to throw out 60,000 ballots from the election. Griffin made the request after losing a challenge before the North Carolina State Board of Elections in which he had also tried to toss those ballots.
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Griffin is trailing Democratic Justice Allison Riggs by 734 votes. As a result of Griffin’s challenges, the race has yet to be called. Riggs was appointed to the state Supreme Court in 2023 and narrowly emerged ahead of Griffin on Election Day, which set off a series of recounts.
A full machine recount and a partial hand recount of the race both…
