The election of 2024 has been over for two months, but there’s still one race that remains unresolved – and now, both the state and the federal courts are involved.
The race in question is for a seat on the State Supreme Court, where Republicans hold a 5-2 majority but Democrats are hoping to retake the majority by the end of the decade. Democratic incumbent Allison Riggs appeared to win reelection in November, narrowly outpolling Republican challenger Jefferson Griffin by a little more than 700 votes out of over 5.5 million cast. But Griffin has refused to concede: he’s asking judges to toss out more than 60,000 votes – including Riggs’ own parents.
Griffin’s challenge to those votes rests on several arguments, but the primary one revolves around a 20-year-old state law requiring new voters to provide driver’s license or Social Security numbers when registering. The vast majority of the challenged voters did not provide that information because they’d already registered to vote befo...
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