# @chapelboronews on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DE0DrhTPB3U
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- **Posted:** 2025-01-14T16:54:23.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Chapelboro.com (@chapelboronews) — https://gondola.cc/chapelboronews

## Caption

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 before the law took effect.

Currently, the case rests in the hands of two courts simultaneously. One is the State Supreme Court itself, which issued an order earlier this month blocking the State Board of Elections from certifying a winner until hearing additional arguments. Riggs has also appealed to the federal judiciary, and this week the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed to hear arguments later this month as well.

Judges on the state and federal levels have already heard and rejected challenges similar to Griffin’s; notably, neither side is contending that anyone acted unlawfully. Given that, Democrats and voting rights advocates alike are sounding the alarm.

Among those advocates is the voting-rights organization Common Cause NC, which has joined Riggs in the legal suit. Common Cause NC executive director Bob Phillips joined 97.9 The Hill’s Aaron Keck to discuss the case. (They spoke after the State Supreme Court issued its order, but before the 4th Circuit took up the case.)

You can find their full conversation on Chapelboro.com
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#ncsupremecourt #ncelections #ncpolitics

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