In NCʼs capital city this fall a super-close Supreme Court contest got even more interesting when Jefferson Griffin demanded a re-check of votes (hes currently behind by about 600 votes)
The race between Griffin — whos a Court-of-Appeals judge — and his Democratic rival shows how nail-biting modern-day elections can be: every single vote matters in this neck-of-the-woods. The re-count request came right under-the-wire before the mid-day cut-off
Other election double-checks are happening too in the tar-heel state including:
- Five state Assembly races
- Some county-level contests
- Single-district matchups
The whole process needs voting machines to scan each paper ballot once more — a time-consuming but needed step to make sure everything adds up right. The stateʼs election staff will run these high-tech counters again making this the only state-wide race getting such treatment