Griffin asks Supreme Court to intervene in effort to overturn election

On Wednesday, Republican Court of Appeals Judge Jefferson Griffin asked the state's 5-2 conservative majority court to step in to prevent certification of the election and toss out over 60,000 votes.

Democratic Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs and Republican Court of Appeals Judge Jefferson Griffin are neck-and-neck in their 2024 Supreme Court bids.

North Carolina Court of Appeals Judge Jefferson Griffin on Wednesday asked the 5-2 conservative majority state Supreme Court to intervene in a race where he presently trails Democratic Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs by 734 votes.

Griffin is specifically asking the high court to step in by Monday to prevent certification of the election, bypass a lower court and discard the ballots of more than 60,000 voters who state and county elections administrators have concluded were legitimately cast. In doing so, he believes he could overtake Riggs’ lead.

Griffin is largely seeking to toss out ballots of people whose voter registrations don’t include driver’s license or the last four digits of their Social Security number, arguing that such incomplete registrations render their votes ineligible.

That argument was partially rejected in federal court shortly before the November election, with a Trump-appointed judge concluding such intervention could move the country “away from a democratic form of government.”