Request denied: NC Supreme Court returns Griffin (R) case to lower court
Republican Court of Appeals Judge Jefferson Griffin skipped a step when appealing the State Board of Elections’ decision to dismiss his election protests, the N.C. Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday.
But that mistake may not sound the death knell on his efforts to reverse the outcome of his election. In fact, several members of the state Supreme Court hinted in Wednesday’s order that if the case made it back up to them, they could rule in his favor.
Griffin, the apparent runner-up in his race against incumbent N.C. Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs, a Democrat, wanted to speed up the legal process to ensure that courts would hear the merits of his protests. Those protests challenge the validity of over 66,000 ballots cast in the 2024 general election before the outcome was certified.
After an election is certified, there is no going back. If his election had been certified on schedule, Griffin’s protests would have been moot and any court decisions would have applied only to future elections.
https://carolinapublicpress.org/68169/election-protests-griffin-nc-supreme-court-ruling/
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