NC Candidate Griffin Requests Court Overrule Election Loss

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Jefferson Griffin, the Republican candidate who lost the NC Supreme Court election by 734 votes, has petitioned the court to invalidate the ballots of 60,000 voters, which would result in him winning. Griffin argues that these votes should not have been counted as the voters’ registrations lacked some mandatory information in the state database, but election officials insist that the majority of these voters are likely eligible and there are legitimate reasons for missing information. The Board of Elections has rejected Griffin’s challenge, but he is now appealing to the top court in the state, which retains a 5-2 Republican majority.

Republican Jefferson Griffin Attempts to Change NC Supreme Court Election Results

Jefferson Griffin, the Republican candidate who lost the NC Supreme Court election barely by 734 votes, is now challenging the results in a bid to overturn the outcome of the election.

Multiple reports on Wednesday highlighted that Griffin has petitioned the court to discard the ballots of 60,000 North Carolinians, claiming these could tilt the result in his favor.

Despite three counts of votes affirming that the Democratic incumbent, Justice Allison Riggs, won the election, Griffin insists that the 60,000 disputed votes should not have been considered due to missing registration information in the state database.

Election officials, however, counter that the majority of these contested voters are indeed eligible, and there can be numerous valid reasons for the lack of database data.

They further emphasized that these voters furnished their voter ID before voting, and most have been voting without any issues for many years.

Griffin is not pursuing a case-by-case analysis of each voter, instead, he intends to carry out a large-scale purge of ballots that have already been counted.

Discarding all these votes based on a technicality would be an extraordinary intervention in an election.

The Board of Elections dismissed Griffin’s challenge earlier this month, and Griffin is now taking his case to the state’s highest court, which currently has a Republican majority of 5-2. Follow Cardinal & Pine for further updates.

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