The Supreme Court of NC interrupts the decision requiring the verification of 65,000 votes in a close judicial race

The Supreme Court of North Carolina temporarily blocked the decision of a lower court which would have demanded that more than 65,000 votes expressed during the Supreme Court of the State in 2024 are told and verified.

The order of two sentences from the Supreme Court of the State prevents a decision to be able to enter into force so that it can examine an appeal from the Democratic candidate in the competition.

Monday in power is the last development of a long and winding saga after a tight finish in November.

The judge of the Supreme Court of the Democratic State, Allison Riggs, who was appointed to the bench in 2023, emerged after election day before the republican candidate Jefferson Griffin, judge of the Court of Appeal of the State, triggering a series of recounts.

A full story of the machine as well as a partial story of the race have both shown that Riggs leading Griffin by 734 votes. More than 5.5 million voting bulletins were sunk in the race. The NBC News decision office has not yet called the race.

After the stories, Griffin’s team has filed legal challenges through the state, alleging that more than 65,000 people had voted illegally. Many allegations focused on voters who, according to Griffin lawyers, had no driver’s license or social security numbers in the file in their voters registration files. Their claims were also linked to foreign voters who did not live in North Carolina and foreign voters who did not provide photos identification with their ballots.

The Riggs campaign spokesperson Sophie Mestas praised the order.

“We are happy that the Supreme Court has granted our request for suspension to this deeply poorly informed order which threatens to deprive thousands of eligible voters. We will continue to continue this call and we are committed to guarantee that power remains in the hands of voters – not politicians,” Mestas said in an email.

Griffin’s spokesman Paul Shumaker said in an email that “everyone expected” order, and called it “part of the process”.

The dispute as to whether these votes should be counted were blocked by federal and state courts for months.

A series of legal developments and decisions earlier this year has made the decision in the hands of the State judicial system, although the Riggs campaign did not exclude legal action which could carry the case before the federal courts.

Even small changes to the number of votes in the race could affect the result.

Monday’s decision – by the same courtyard where a seat is at stake in the case – temporarily blocks a decision on Friday by the North Carolina Court of Appeal.

In this decision, a panel of three Republican-Majjeurité judges gave the North Caroline elections’ opening council 15 working days to obtain proof of identity necessary, for the thousands of voters whose eligibility was challenged by the Griffin campaign and its lawyers, which would check these votes. In its decision, the court judged that all voters who did not respond would have their counted vote.

The brief ordinance on Monday did not declare whether the Supreme Court would examine the entire Griffin case or only the appeal of Riggs, which had asked for the decision of the court of appeal on Friday.

The Republicans currently have a 5-2 majority at the Supreme Court of North Carolina. Riggs has recused from the question.

Griffin is sitting on the State Court of Appeal but has challenged the case.