When all the votes in November’s race for North Carolina’s state supreme court were counted, the incumbent, Allison Riggs, had won more. The question is whether that will be enough for her to take office.The race began as a heated yet normal battle over political control for a key judgeship. But the challenger, Jefferson Griffin, is asking the state’s courts to throw out about 60,000 ballots and hand him victory. This has transformed the contest into something more fundamental: a test of democracy’s basic mechanics. Now it’s up to the state’s Republican-led supreme court to decide whether to side with voters or with a fellow Republican judge.Yesterday, the court issued an order staying the certification of Riggs’s election while it considers Griffin’s petition. (Riggs, a Democrat, recused herself; the court’s other Democrat dissented.) Certification had been scheduled for Friday.Riggs didn’t win the election by much: She garnered just a few… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.
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