Calling it “egregious assaults on voting rights” and “sinister and shameful,” Democrats alongside North Carolina’s unsettled election battle lashed out at Republicans and Judge Jefferson Griffin on Monday afternoon.
Allison Riggs, the Democrat appointed to the state Supreme Court by Gov. Roy Cooper, was not part of the virtual press conference with Democratic National Committee Chairman Jaime Harrison, Cooper and North Carolina Democratic Party Chairwoman Anderson Clayton.
The race for seat 6 on the bench is the lone race without a certificate from the State Board of Elections.
Griffin, who led by roughly 10,000 votes on election night, saw his advantage gradually erode during the canvassing, as mail-in ballots were tallied. However, he argued that many of those appeared to be illegitimate based on state laws.
Griffin said the state election board wrongly rejected his protests and has pursued litigation. The decisions of the election board, 3-2 majority Democrats, have trended on party lines. […]
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