Raleigh. The North Carolina Supreme Court has partially upheld a claim by Republican candidate Jefferson Griffin seeking to overturn thousands of votes cast in the November election, which could reverse the outcome of the race he loss for a seat on the state highest court.

According to all the official counts from the State Board of Elections (NCSBE), Griffin lost the election by 734 votes to Democrat Allison Riggs, but the results have not been certified due to a lawsuit by the Republican who asks for the nullity of more than 65,000 votes because he considers that they were cast irregularly.

The state Supreme Court ruled last Friday that the vast majority of those votes should be counted, but upheld Griffin’s questions about a sufficient number of votes to change the outcome of the election if they end up being overturned.

The order dismisses Griffin’s claim regarding 60,273 votes that the Republican said should not be counted because voters registered without providing their Social Security or driver’s license numbers.

The judges say those votes should not be annulled because the error in the registration was not made by the voters but by the state Board of Elections, contradicting the previous ruling of the Court of Appeals, which on April 4 sided with Griffin in all his claims.

However, the state Supreme Court did agree with Griffin’s claim that questions between 1,409 and 5,509 absentee-by-mail ballots cast by military and overseas voters, without attaching a valid copy of their identification.

The order gives those voters 30 days to correct the issue by sending a photocopy of their ID to their county board of elections, up from the 15 days deadline set by the Court of Appeals.

In addition, the state Supreme Court upheld the Court of Appeals’ decision to overturn 267 votes cast by U.S. citizens who never lived in the country but whose parents were residents of North Carolina before moving abroad.

After the Supreme Court’s ruling, Riggs announced that she will appeal the decision to federal courts, so the injunction would not go into effect yet.

The state Board of Elections said in a statement that it will wait for the judicial process to be completed before giving instructions to the County Boards of Elections and affected voters on how to comply with the court orders.

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