A North Carolina judge's effort to overturn his electoral defeat by tossing out thousands of votes is "fatally flawed," "unlawful and unwarranted" as it threatens to disenfranchise scores of North Carolina voters, state Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs argued.
The Democratic justice's late Tuesday rebuke refutes the election protests of her opponent, Appellate Court Judge Jefferson Griffin, who trails Riggs in the state's Supreme Court race by just 734 votes. Griffin, a Republican, has asked the North Carolina Supreme Court to force the state Board of Elections to throw out more than 60,000 votes that he claims, in part, are invalid because voters' registration applications were incomplete.
