Will we see Griffin-inspired legislation changing NC voting requirements?

In court filings, Griffin argues a number of state laws are either unconstitutional or not being followed correctly. GOP legislative leaders see potential for new legislation.

To overturn an apparent 734-vote defeat to Democratic Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs, Republican Court of Appeals Judge Jefferson Griffin is seeking to toss out the ballots of more than 66,000 North Carolinians who lawfully voted under the rules in place at the time of the November election.

Griffin and the North Carolina Republican Party contend that votes should be removed from the count over some combination of voters lacking state residency (267 people), not providing a photo ID when casting military and overseas mail-in ballots (5,509 people) or missing their driver’s license number or the last four digits of their Social Security number in a voter registration database (60,273 people).

Republicans see additional problematic voters, but didn’t file timely protests over them because Griffin’s allies didn’t immediately hear back from many counties it requested data from.

The case is likely to ultimately hinge on the photo ID concerns, where Democrats are nearly five times more likely than Republicans to have their ballots discarded.

But before we dive into whether any laws will change as a result of Griffin’s protests, it’s important to look at what the current law already says.