60,000+ voters are challenged in NC Supreme Court race. How to learn if you’re on the list
Over 60,000 North Carolinians have had their votes in the November election challenged by Jefferson Griffin, the Republican candidate for state Supreme Court.
Griffin trails his opponent, Democratic incumbent Allison Riggs, by 734 votes following two recounts of the results. But he argues that the state improperly allowed tens of thousands of voters to participate in the election who had problems with their registration.
Caught up in this lengthy and complicated litigation are pastors, assistants to state lawmakers and even Riggs’ own parents — all of whom have had their votes challenged despite having participated in elections for years without incident.
Here’s how you can find out if your vote is being challenged.
The official route
First off, it’s important to know that Griffin has only challenged voters who cast an absentee ballot or voted early. If you voted in-person on Election Day, your vote has not been challenged.
Any voters included in the challenges should have received a notice in the mail from the North Carolina Republican Party, which includes a link to the protests. If you do not have the notice, you can still find the information online.
All of Griffin’s protests are housed on the State Board of Elections’ website, but the state has not compiled a combined, comprehensive list with names of all the challenged voters. Instead, the protests are organized by county and the reason for the challenge. To find out if you are included in the challenges, first navigate to this website: https://tinyurl.com/3b826h3v
From there, locate the links with your home county in the name. You’ll likely see several of them. Open each link and scroll down to the spreadsheet with the list of names. Here, you can check to see if you’ve been included in the protest.
To easily find your name, hit ctrl+f (or command+f on a Mac) on your keyboard and then type in your name.
The easier way
Several residents opposed to Griffin’s challenges have created their own tools for voters to find out if their votes are challenged.
- Terry Mahaffey, a member of the Apex Town Council, developed a searchable online tool to help voters determine if they are on the list. That can be found at ccnc.me/GriffinList.
- That website also allows a user to download a complete, searchable spreadsheet of all the challenged voters compiled by Bob Hall, a longtime North Carolina government watchdog. The spreadsheet is also available at https://tinyurl.com/bdf37zuy
- Triangle Blog Blog, a news blog covering Chapel Hill and Carrboro, has created a website called thegriffinlist.com which allows voters to search for their name among the protests.
This story was originally published January 15, 2025 at 12:18 PM with the headline "60,000+ voters are challenged in NC Supreme Court race. How to learn if you’re on the list."
