NC Supreme Ct. ruling narrows election challenge in Griffin - Riggs race | Eastern NC Now

A new ruling by the North Carolina Supreme Court has narrowed the group of voters being challenged from 65,000 to just 5,000 but that move likely increases the odds of conservative Court of Appeals Judge Jefferson Griffin being ultimately seated in the challenged Supreme Court seat race.  Griffin is in competition with far left Cooper appointee Allison Riggs.

Two groups of voters were initially challenged, questionable overseas voters many of whom had never lived in North Carolina, of which there are about 5,000 votes, and those who were improperly registered without federally required ID information and voted absentee, of which there are about 60,000.  The latest Supreme Court ruling narrows the challenged voters to the 5,000 overseas voters.

Riggs has filed her own lawsuit in federal court with a far left Obama judge demanding to be seated.  The state supreme court narrowing the challenged voters makes Riggs lawsuit much more difficult.  That is because only the voters with missing ID info who voted absentee can have their votes backed out of the system, but similarly situated voters who voted on election day cannot.  This different treatment of similarly situated voters would have opened a path for the federal court to undo what the state courts were doing, and that path has now been closed.

The Democrat National Committee had a massive campaign to register overseas voters and to target them in swing states, so the challenged overseas voters are expected to be heavily Democrat.  No voters in this category voted on election day, so the different treatment argument does not work with them.

While the election night count with all precincts in had Griffin ahead, the following round of canvas and recounts yielded a victory for Riggs by over 700 votes.  Before being appointed a judge by Roy Cooper, Riggs was the co-director of the far left "Southern Coalition for Social Justice" out of Durham.

https://redstate.com/bonchie/2025/04/12/nc-supreme-court-makes-way-for-election-to-be-overturned-democrat-runs-to-federal-court-n2187794