North Carolina’s Supreme Court race is headed for a recount due to a close final tally as the Democrat pulled ahead two weeks after Election Day.
Democrat incumbent Sarah Riggs closed the race with 2,770,818 votes to GOP challenger Jefferson Griffin’s 2,770,193 votes.
The race is headed for a recount since the vote difference is fewer than 10,000 votes.
Republican Griffin was leading the race until all of a sudden Democrat Riggs overcame her opponent weeks after the election.
President Trump won North Carolina by more than 3 percent over Kamala Harris in the 2024 election but somehow the Democrats took many down ballot races.
The Democrat incumbent is now ahead by 600 votes after late votes came in for the North Carolina Supreme Court seat.
WBTV reported:
The 2024 race for a seat on the North Carolina Supreme Court is headed for a recount due to an extremely close final vote tally.
The North Carolina State Board of Elections declared on Tuesday, Nov. 19, that a recount will be held for the race for seat 6 on the state’s high court. More final vote tallies for the 2024 election were submitted to the board Tuesday, leaving a slim margin between apparent-winner Allison Riggs, the Democratic incumbent, and Republican Jefferson Griffin.
By 3:23 p.m. on Tuesday, the state elections board reported the following final vote counts for the candidates:
Griffin (GOP): 2,770,193
Riggs (Dem): 2,770,818
By that count, Justice Riggs led Griffin by 625 votes — which equals about a .02% difference. Candidates are allowed to request a recount in statewide races if the vote difference equals 10,000 or fewer votes, according to North Carolina law.
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