As we’ve reported, the one statewide race in North Carolina that has not been decided is the Supreme Court race between Justice Allison Riggs (D) and Court of Appeals Judge Jefferson Griffin (R).
When we last left you, Griffin had formally requested a recount (on 11/19), which made sense considering Riggs was only ahead by 623 votes at the time. After he made the request she was suddenly up by 722 because some county boards of election were late completing their official results.
And that particular little factoid has raised a lot of questions about how the post-election day process has played out. For example, Griffin was ahead of Riggs by around 10,000 votes the morning after the election (11/6). But during what was supposed to be a 10-day canvass process, his lead gradually eroded as overseas/military absentee ballots were counted and provisionals were…
