A panel of judges from a North Carolina Appeals Court ruled today that a group of 65,000 challenged votes will be tossed if the voters don’t cure their ballots within 15 days. That could upend the race in which incumbent North Carolina Supreme Court Judge Allison Riggs, a Democrat, narrowly defeated challenger Jefferson Griffin, a Republican, by fewer than 1,000 votes.
In the ruling, the Republican majority involved in the decision ordered that a group of more than 65,000 voters, whose eligibility was challenged by Republican Supreme Court candidate Jefferson Griffin and his lawyers, now have 15 business days to provide state elections officials with the necessary proof of identity that would verify their votes. The court ruled that any voters who don’t respond will not have their votes counted in the race between Griffin and Democrat Allison Riggs,…
