Republican Jefferson Griffin narrowly lost his race for a seat on the state Supreme Court. Now he’s asking that 60,000 ballots be thrown out based on a theory that an election denier said amounted to “voter suppression.

A trailing candidate in a very close election last month for the North Carolina Supreme Court has asked that court to get involved legally in his race.

An uncertified election for North Carolina Supreme Court took another step in federal court Monday, a business day after the suspension from federal court of a state elections board member’s spouse earlier mired in recusal controversy of that race.

Months before voters went to the polls in November, a group of election skeptics based in North Carolina gathered on a call and discussed what actions to take if they doubted any of the results. One of the ideas they floated: try to get the courts or state election board to throw out hundreds of thousands of ballots cast by voters whose