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Out of New Hanover, Brunswick, Bladen, Columbus, and Pender Counties, about 4,000 ballots are being challenged, according to a list of names, showing if your ballot is being disenfranchised.

The GOP is trying to overturn a closely watched North Carolina Supreme Court election where two recounts show Democratic Justice Allison Riggs holding on to her seat by 734 votes.

Voting may have finished months ago, but Republicans are still trying to change the outcome of one North Carolina election. The plan? Throw out more than 60,000 ballots in a race that will determine the balance of the state’s Supreme Court. Now ...

More than 80 days after Election Day, a race for a seat on the North Carolina Supreme Court remains unresolved. That's because the Republican candidate is contesting some 65,000 ballots.

The North Carolina Supreme Court has dismissed a request by the trailing candidate in an close race for a seat on the court to rule now on whether well over 60,000 ballots should be removed from the tally.

In this moment of crisis, the courts have become the final guardrail against the forces of authoritarianism that seek to undermine the will of the voters.

Next week, dozens of property owners who live in Lincoln County will become Catawba County residents. North Carolina officials are shifting the

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Embry Owen, a spokesperson for Riggs’ campaign, said in an email, “As a candidate for public office, Justice Riggs remains committed to exercising her First Amendment rights, educating North Carolinians about action she has taken as a party to this case, and speaking up for the more than 65,000 voters who Judge Griffin seeks to disenfranchise.”

The North Carolina Supreme Court rejected an effort from Republican Jefferson Griffin to expedite his appeal to toss out more than 60,000 ballots in a hotly contested judicial race. The state’s high court ruled that Griffin must have his appeal through Wake County Superior Court before it can be considered by the state Supreme Court.