GOP Supreme Court candidate’s voter purge demands turn farcical

The Bottom Line from NC Newsline

Judge Jefferson Griffin (Photo: State Court of Appeals)

In his infamous 2020 post-election phone call to Georgia’s Secretary of State, Donald Trump demanded that Brad Raffensberger “find” him the votes he needed to reverse Joe Biden’s election win.

Today, four years later, it feels like we’re watching a rerun in the actions of Republican North Carolina Supreme Court candidate Jefferson Griffin.

In a series of court challenges eerily reminiscent of Trump’s “find me the votes” scheme, Griffin wants sixty-plus thousand ballots cast in the election that he lost to incumbent Justice Allison Riggs thrown out.

Indeed, in a recent court filing, Griffin urged that judges review the ballots he wants tossed in phases and says the process can wrap up as soon as enough voters are disqualified to flip the election. He even argues that ballots should be purged first from four counties in which Democrats are more numerous.

And you really can’t make this stuff up.

The bottom line: Judge Griffin’s election challenge has gone from maddening to outrageous to downright farcical. And every day he and his enablers persist, the damage to our democracy grows more severe.

For NC Newsline, I’m Rob Schofield.