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Rachel Leingang

North Carolina supreme court blocks certification of justice’s election win

a room full of machines
Volunteers feed ballots into machines as Mecklenburg officials hold a recount in North Carolina’s supreme court election on 21 November in Charlotte. Photograph: Melissa Melvin-Rodriguez/AP

The Republican majority on North Carolina’s supreme court blocked election officials from certifying the win of a Democratic justice on Tuesday after her opponent made attempts to toss out tens of thousands of votes.

Allison Riggs, a Democratic supreme court justice in North Carolina with a background as a voting rights lawyer, won re-election in November by 734 votes over the appellate judge Jefferson Griffin. Recounts confirmed her victory.

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