(The Center Square) – Litigation has been filed against the North Carolina State Board of Elections, saying the authority of the state’s election process has not provided information in a timely manner to candidates in the state Supreme Court race.
Jason Simmons, chairman of the North Carolina Republican Party, said the information has not come for multiple days. The state board, by law, on Friday at 5 p.m. was to have received canvass totals of all 100 counties.
From Election Night final unofficial totals with all of the state’s 2,658 precincts reporting, Republican Jefferson Griffin has gone from a lead of 9,851 to trailing Democrat Allison Riggs by 70 votes – with six counties still unofficial just before 5 p.m. Monday…