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littlemissmartypants

(25,867 posts)
Tue Dec 10, 2024, 01:46 PM Dec 10

📣Our New Supreme Court Judge is Democrat Allison Riggs !!

Last edited Tue Dec 10, 2024, 03:00 PM - Edit history (1)

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Tuesday, December 10, 2024

Patrick Gannon, Public Information Director

State Board Will Not Order Full Recount in NC Supreme Court Contest

Raleigh, N.C. — The State Board of Elections will not order a full hand recount of all ballots in the NC Supreme Court Associate Justice contest, after a partial recount resulted in additional votes for the leading candidate, Democrat Allison Riggs.

Riggs, who leads the contest by 734 votes after a statewide machine recount, picked up more votes than her opponent – Republican Jefferson G. Griffin – in the partial hand count. Riggs garnered 70 additional votes compared to 56 for Griffin in the hand count, which concluded today. The recounts were conducted by bipartisan teams in all 100 counties over the past week.

Under state law, for a full hand recount to be ordered, Griffin would have had to pick up at least 35 more votes than Riggs in the partial hand count of the ballots in 3% of the Election Day precincts and early voting sites in each county.

[Please see “NC Supreme Court Partial Hand-to-Eye Recount Results”]

Election administrators expect candidates to pick up votes in a hand recount because some voters do not properly mark their ballot, and as a result, the tabulator cannot read their selections. However, in hand-to-eye recount, humans can identify marks that show which candidate the voter intended to select, as determined by bipartisan county board members, and count those ballots.

The partial hand-to-eye recount followed a full machine recount of the more than 5.5 million ballots cast in the Supreme Court contest. That recount showed Riggs with a 734-vote lead.

“We once again owe our gratitude to the county boards of elections, and all of the workers who have made sure that ballots were counted accurately in this contest,” said Karen Brinson Bell, executive director of the State Board of Elections. “Recounts, especially hand recounts, are tedious, difficult work.”

State Board to Hear Protests Wednesday

Meanwhile, the State Board will meet at 12:30 p.m. Wednesday to consider election protests filed by the Griffin campaign.

The meeting will be held in the board room of the third floor of the Dobbs Building, 430 N. Salisbury St., Raleigh, NC 27603. Any member of the public may attend, space permitting, and the meeting will be streamed online and by phone at the following locations.

Online: Webex (Password: NCSBE)
By Phone: Dial (415) 655-0003, enter access code 2436 916 8362#, passcode 62723#
Meeting materials will be posted as they are available to the State Board’s meeting folder.

Read this press release with hotlinks at:

https://www.ncsbe.gov/news/press-releases/2024/12/10/state-board-will-not-order-full-recount-nc-supreme-court-contest

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Now, let's celebrate!!



❤️pants



Vote count as of 1500 on December 10, 2024
Allison Riggs DEM 2,770,412 50.01%
Jefferson G. Griffin REP 2,769,678 49.99

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📣Our New Supreme Court Judge is Democrat Allison Riggs !! (Original Post) littlemissmartypants Dec 10 OP
Congrats, Pants! SheltieLover Dec 10 #1
❤️ littlemissmartypants Dec 10 #2
How is sweet Chichi. SheltieLover Dec 11 #4
TY for asking. ❤️ littlemissmartypants Dec 11 #7
This made my day!!!! brakester Dec 10 #3
This message was self-deleted by its author brakester Dec 11 #5
IKR! What an asshat! ... littlemissmartypants Dec 11 #6

brakester

(150 posts)
3. This made my day!!!!
Tue Dec 10, 2024, 05:14 PM
Dec 10

Republicans are so corrupt! He kept pushing and pushing and they found more votes for Riggs!

Karmic Justice!!!

Response to littlemissmartypants (Original post)

littlemissmartypants

(25,867 posts)
6. IKR! What an asshat! ...
Wed Dec 11, 2024, 03:46 PM
Dec 11

Probably couldn't stand losing to a woman. Well he can sit down hard on his Republican (misogynistic DEI haters club) ass and spin until eternity.

I'm thrilled beyond words.

TY for the reply, brakester.

❤️

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