A federal judge ordered North Carolina officials to certify the result of last year’s state Supreme Court election, dismissing challenges to certain ballots by Republican Jefferson Griffin. Griffin’s campaign disputed the legality of the registration of the 60,

A federal judge ordered North Carolina's election board to certify a sitting Democratic justice's electoral victory to the state's Supreme Court.

A federal judge ordered North Carolina's election board on Monday to not throw out any ballots cast by voters in November in a close race for a seat on the state's Supreme Court and to certify a sitting Democratic justice's electoral victory.