North Carolina judges side with Republican colleague in close Supreme Court race

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina appeals court sided Friday with the trailing Republican candidate in an extremely close state Supreme Court election, a ruling that could flip the result of the nation’s only 2024 race that is still undecided.

In a 2-1 decision, a panel of the intermediate-level Court of Appeals ruled that ballots — likely tens of thousands of them — were wrongly allowed in the tally, and it gave some of those voters about three weeks to provide additional information or see the ballots get removed. The disputed ballots are believed to favor Democratic Associate Justice Allison Riggs, who, after two recounts, held a 734-vote lead over Republican Jefferson Griffin in their race, which saw over 5.5 million ballots cast.

The judges on Friday found that the State Board of Elections got it wrong in December when it dismissed Griffin’s election protests. The ruling is expected to be appealed to the Supreme Court.

Griffin’s postelection protests challenged over 65,000 ballots in three different categories. Griffin currently serves on the Court of Appeals and had recused himself from deliberations within the court, where some of his colleagues ruled favoring him.

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By GARY D. ROBERTSON
Updated 1:57 PM EDT, April 4, 2025



Read more: https://apnews.com/article/north-carolina-election-2024-griffin-riggs-judges-fe51ca7bb095b9dcb305030220e69606

[dweller]

1. 15 days

Is not ‘about 3 weeks’


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[subterranean]

4. Is it 15 business days?

[wolfie001]

2. Evil criminal rePUKE syndicate

This is total bullshit and not what the people voted for. Those two weasels surrendered to the maga cult. Cowards.

[in2herbs]

3. The winner's margin was 734 votes out of the 60,000+ claimed to be fraudulent. So if 734 votes

were verified to be true out of the 60,000+ claimed to be fraudulent, would 734 verified votes out of the 60,000+ confirm Riggs to be a winner???

This would be a more achievable hurdle, IMO.

[Karma13612]

6. I'm not sure of your math..

I thought that after all the ballots were counted, the Democratic candidate was up by 734 votes. In essence, she was the winner.
The trailing sore loser Republican Candidate decided to question some 60,000 votes for various reasons. If he prevails, then there are potentially 60,000 votes that are not counted. So, he wins.

As I said, that’s just my understanding of this vote suppressing debacle.

[in2herbs]

7. That clairifies the data. TY

[Karma13612]

5. Those fckrs......eom