In North Carolina, Judge Jefferson Griffin has conceded his tight race against incumbent Justice Allison Riggs after unsuccessful legal efforts to contest over 65,000 ballots that could have changed the election outcome. Griffin lost by 734 votes but attempted to retroactively challenge the validity of ballots, including those from overseas military members. Federal Judge Richard Myers ruled against his arguments, stating that altering election rules post-vote violates constitutional rights, leading Griffin to concede after six months of litigation.
"You establish the rules before the game. You don't change them after the game is done," Myers said in his opinion, adding that to do what Griffin was requesting would "violate the equal protection and substantive due process rights" of thousands of North Carolina voters.
After months of litigation, federal Judge Richard Myers of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina ruled on Monday that Griffin's legal argument to retroactively change election standards in order to toss out those votes was unconstitutional.
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