NC judge asks for new count as Supreme Court race ends with tiny gap
A tight race for North Carolinaʼs Supreme Court leads to recount demand with just 600 votes between candidates. Several other local election results also face new counting process
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
