A federal judge ordered the North Carolina Board of Elections on May 5 to certify the results of the state’s 2024 Supreme Court election and confirm the victory of Democratic incumbent Justice Allison Riggs after the results were challenged by a Republican judge.
In a 68-page ruling, District Judge Richard E. Myers II ruled in favor of Riggs, dismissing a request for injunctive relief filed by Judge Jefferson Griffin, a Republican who trailed the Democrat by 734 votes in November’s election.
Myers wrote that Griffin cannot “change the rules of the game after it had been played.”
“The court cannot countenance that strategy … which implicates the very integrity of the election and offends ‘the law’s basic interest in finality,’” the judge wrote….