Summary

The North Carolina Supreme Court, in a 5-1 Republican-led decision, blocked certification of Democratic Justice Allison Riggs as the winner of a state Supreme Court race.

Riggs leads Republican Jefferson Griffin by 734 votes after recounts, but Griffin claims 60,000 ballots were illegally cast and seeks to have them invalidated.

The court will now hear Griffin’s challenge, with briefs due by January 24.

Democrats criticized the move as partisan, while the lone Democratic justice dissented, arguing there is no basis to delay certification or disrupt the election process.

  • @[email protected]
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    251 day ago

    Nah this won’t happen. Because there will likely not be an election. Or there will be an “election” with Trump winning 100% of the vote.

    • @[email protected]
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      619 hours ago

      They wouldn’t make it that blatant. A sham election is a lot more convincing when they do something like rigging it to ensure Trump wins by razor-thin margins in every swing state.

    • Bakkoda
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      71 day ago

      120% of the vote. Can’t set a record for the bestest biggestest vote with a measly 100%