It’s been a month and a half since our last update on the North Carolina Supreme Court race primarily for two reasons: 1) nearly three months after Election Day, it remains undecided and 2) it’s been a battle of wills in various courtrooms between the GOP candidate, Court of Appeals Judge Jefferson Griffin and his Democrat opponent, state Associate Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs.
Here’s a quick recap/refresher on how we got to this point before we get to the latest developments:
The morning after the election, Griffin was up by around 10,000 votes, only to see his lead evaporate to a deficit of just over 700 votes over the next two weeks as county election boards researched provisional ballots and counted overseas/military absentee ballots, the latter of which were allowed to come in through November 14th.
Concerns were raised when the original ten-day…
