Some breaking news in the Jefferson Griffin case:
Cardinal & Pine’s Michael McElroy reports the North Carolina Supreme Court on Friday rejected the bulk of Jefferson Griffin’s effort to overturn his election loss, but gave him enough room to win by targeting overseas military voters.
Griffin lost his Supreme Court election to incumbent Justice Allison Riggs by 734 votes, but he filed a lawsuit in November seeking to throw out the ballots of tens of thousands of voters who followed the rules at the time of the election.
The state’s highest court has ruled against Griffin on more than 60,000 of the ballots he wanted to discard based on incomplete voter registration information. But the majority on the court said that overseas military voters, whom election officials said did not have to show a voter ID to vote, had 30 days to prove their identities to have their votes counted.
It is unclear how many voters this will affect, but since Griffin tailored this specific challenge to only Democratic counties, there are more than enough votes at stake to change the result of the election.
Riggs has appealed the ruling to federal court. Stay tuned for further updates, North Carolina.
