North Carolinas tight Supreme Court race isnt over yet - even after running millions of papers through counting machines again. The initial machine-based recount (which processed about 5.5-million votes) showed no shift in the razor-thin gap between candidates
Allison Riggs‚ the Democratic Associate Justice maintains her lead with just 734 votes over Republican challenger Jefferson Griffin whose currently serving as a Court of Appeals judge. Election staff are now preparing for a time-consuming hand-count process; this represents an extra step to ensure vote accuracy
The super-close margin between these judicial candidates - less than 0.01% difference - shows how every single vote matters in modern-day elections. The states voting system proved its reliability through the machine recount process‚ but officials want to be extra-careful with such a narrow gap between contestants