National Attention Grows Over Unresolved North Carolina Supreme Court Election!

Race Day Live CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The North Carolina Supreme Court race is still unresolved two and a half months after the election, and it is getting attention from lawmakers in Washington, D.C.

U.S. Senator Thom Tillis brought up the issue of voter fraud during a confirmation hearing for Attorney General nominee Pam Bondi.

He spoke about how election problems happen in every election, but what matters is whether you can prove it. “One of the reasons I support voter ID is to make elections easy to vote and hard to cheat,” he added.

Though he did not name Jefferson Griffin, a Republican state Supreme Court candidate, Tillis’s comment ties into Griffin’s main argument about voter ID.

Griffin claims that thousands of ballots in the election should be thrown out because voters did not properly identify themselves when they registered.

After two recounts, Justice Allison Riggs, the Democratic candidate, leads Griffin by 734 votes. However, Griffin argues that 60,000 of those votes were wrongly counted, as many voters did not provide correct identification.

Earlier this month, the North Carolina Supreme Court stopped state election officials from declaring Riggs the official winner.

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This has led to more attention on the case, including comments from U.S. Representative Deborah Ross (D-Raleigh).

She spoke out on the House floor last week, saying that two recounts had already confirmed Riggs’s victory, but Griffin refused to accept the result.

“Four years after January 6th, we’re once again reminded about how fragile our democracy truly is,” Ross said. She added that Griffin was trying to silence voters by not accepting the election results.

Her comments were backed by a mobile billboard that traveled around the state, paid for by the voter rights group Common Cause NC.

The truck displayed a message that read, “Jefferson Griffin’s campaign to silence 6,328 Mecklenburg voters is shameful.”

Bob Phillips, the executive director of Common Cause NC, said he wasn’t surprised that the issue was getting national attention.

“It’s an embarrassment for the entire state of North Carolina, nationally, and there is increasing national attention to this,” Phillips said.

He also pointed out that this situation gives people the wrong idea that if you don’t like the results of an election, you don’t have to concede and can instead find ways to protest.

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