North Carolina justices cast state Supreme Court election result into doubt
The North Carolina Supreme Court on Friday threw into doubt the election of one of its members, tossing almost 300 ballots and telling about 5,000 military and overseas voters that they would need to submit copies of photo IDs to have their votes counted.
In another part of its ruling, the Republican-controlled court allowed the counting of more than 60,000 other ballots, giving a partial victory to the Democratic incumbent whose election has been questioned.
Democratic Justice Allison Riggs won her November election by 734 votes, but the court put into play enough votes to possibly hand the seat to her Republican challenger, Jefferson Griffin, an appeals judge.
Riggs did not participate in Friday’s decision, and she immediately asked a federal judge to block the state Supreme Court’s decision.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/11/north-carolina-supreme-court-election/