The North Carolina state board of elections turned away a request on Wednesday from a Republican candidate to disqualify 60,000 ballots in a state supreme court election that a Democrat appears to have won by a little over 700 votes.
Democrats have a 3-2 majority on the board. In a vote on partisan lines, they said that the protesters had not followed proper procedure when they filed their protest, noting that thousands of residents had received a mailing with a QR code stating that their eligibility could be affected by the challenges.
