A judge challenging the outcome of his North Carolina Supreme Court race was photographed wearing Confederate military garb and posing before a Confederate battle flag when he was a member of a college fraternity that glorified the pre-Civil War South.
Attorneys for Republican state Supreme Court candidate Jefferson Griffin appeared before a North Carolina Court of Appeals panel on Friday arguing to invalidate more than 65,000 ballots in Griffin's race against Democratic incumbent Justice Allison Riggs.
An appeals court judge who could hear Jefferson Griffin's protest over thousands of ballots in his bid for a seat on the state Supreme Court contributed to the GOP candidate's legal expense fund.
Republican state Supreme Court candidate Jefferson Griffin, who trails in his race against Democratic incumbent Allison Riggs by 734 votes, wants more than 60,000 ballots invalidated because of alleged incomplete voter registrations