A Republican-majority, three-judge panel of the North Carolina Court of Appeals on Friday ordered the state Board of Elections to recalculate the vote totals in the state's contentious Supreme Court race. The 103-page decision overturns a trial court ruling denying Republican Appeals Court Judge Jefferson Griffin's request to toss out tens of thousands of votes he claims are invalid.
The judges ruled 2-1, along party lines, in favor of Griffin, who recused himself from the case and lost the 2024 contest to incumbent Justice Allison Riggs, a Democrat, by 734 votes.
