While all eyes were on Judge Jefferson Griffin’s attempt to discard ballots in a case that’s now with the state Supreme Court ...

A Republican candidate for the state’s Supreme Court is asking that same court to make him the winner on the flimsiest of grounds.

Republican Jefferson Griffin lost by 734 votes, but he has contested the eligibility of 60,000 ballots cast in the election.

The challenge to North Carolina’s Supreme Court election grows more complicated by the day. Voters caught up in the turmoil have questions about how the race got here and how it may be resolved.