Federal judge orders NC to certify Riggs (D) as winner in Supreme Court election

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3. From the archive link

In a ruling that could put an end to nearly six months of legal battles over North Carolina’s contested Supreme Court election, a federal judge on Monday ruled against the Republican candidate’s effort to overturn his narrow loss.
Chief U.S. District Judge Richard E. Myers, an appointee of President Donald Trump, ruled that Jefferson Griffin, a judge on the state Court of Appeals, cannot “change the rules of the game after it had been played.”
Myers ordered the state not to throw out any votes and to certify the results of the election as they were at the close of the canvas period, with Democratic incumbent Allison Riggs winning by 734 votes.
However, Myers put his own order on hold for seven days to give Griffin a chance to appeal.
In his 68-page ruling, Myers said Griffin and the North Carolina Republican Party’s unprecedented effort to challenge over 65,000 ballots presented an unconstitutional burden on the right to vote.

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