As RedState previously reported, Election Day was a good day for Republican judicial candidates in North Carolina, where they won all three Court of Appeals races, flipping a seat in the process as the icing on the cake.
Also on the ballot this year in the Old North State was the race between NC Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs and Republican Court of Appeals Judge Jefferson Griffin. A win from Griffin would make the state’s court 6-1 GOP. A win from Riggs would keep it 5-2 GOP.
On the Wednesday morning after the election, Griffin was up by around 10,000 votes which you would think would have led to calls that he was the winner.
But he wasn’t as county boards of elections continued counting absentee ballots including some that came in on Election Day as well as those received from military-overseas voters, which had until Thursday the 14th (the day before county canvass took place) to be received. There were also the provisional ballots that had to be reviewed and decisions made on which ones could be included in the totals.
Over the course of what was supposed to be a 10-day canvass period, Griffin’s lead gradually shrunk as more counties completed their counts and made their results official. By Friday midday (Nov, 15th), which was the day final official results were supposed to be posted, his lead was down to around 3,900 votes. […]
— Read More: redstate.com
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