Griffin At Last Concedes He Lost Election for NC Supreme Court Seat

After multiple recounts and months of court battles, Republican Jefferson Griffin at last conceded that Democrat Allison Riggs won by 734 votes over him in the November 2024 election for a seat on the North Carolina state Supreme Court.

Griffin is a judge on the North Carolina state Court of Appeals. To overturn the election result, his court challenges sought to discard about 65,000 ballots even though the ballots were cast in accordance with election rules. He challenged postal ballots from voters overseas who were not required to provide a photo ID, from children of North Carolina voters who were living abroad when the children turned 18 and became eligible to vote, and from people whose voting record did not have a driver’s license number or the last four digits of their social security number. He did not challenge all such postal ballots, only those for specific voting districts that tend to vote heavily Democratic.

His legal battle has swung back and forth. The latest ruling by the North Carolina state Supreme Court ordered more than 1,300 ballots to be discarded unless those voters prove their eligibility. who had successfully cast ballots had to prove their eligibility or else they would be thrown out. On Monday, federal District Court Judge Richard Myers II blocked the state Supreme Court ruling and ordered certification of the election.

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