Hands Off Our Heroes’ Votes: Stop Jefferson Griffin’s attempt to silence North Carolina’s military and overseas voters

Our service members put their lives on the line to defend democracy. Yet Court‑of‑Appeals Judge Jefferson Griffin is still suing to toss out the very absentee ballots they cast from the front lines—ballots that helped decide the 2024 race for North Carolina Supreme Court, where Justice Allison Riggs currently leads by 734 votes out of 5.5 million.

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THE FACTS GRIFFIN WON’T TELL YOU

Targeting our troops: Nearly one‑third of the ballots on Griffin’s hit list belong to active‑duty military or their families.

IN THE NEWS

RightCount partnered with long‑time Republican lawyer Ben Ginsberg to draft and place an op‑ed in The Carolina Journal slamming Jefferson Griffin’s attempt to invalidate the votes belonging to more than 600,000 North Carolinians in the 2024 Supreme Court race.

Echoes of Gore’s Florida Recount in Griffin’s Attempt to Toss Ballots
March 31, 2025

“Jefferson Griffin’s attempts to invalidate 60,000 North Carolina voters bear haunting parallels to what Al Gore supporters tried to do late in the 2000 Florida recount to take away George W. Bush’s victory. I was the Bush‑Cheney campaign’s national counsel, and as Republicans, we were outraged by the unprincipled attempts to disenfranchise voters to steal a win.

“Imitating the Gore playbook, Griffin is trying to overturn a historically close election by changing the election’s rules after it was conducted and disenfranchising thousands of otherwise legal voters, not because they did anything wrong, but because of election officials’ instructions.

“Griffin’s efforts should fail for the same reasons Al Gore’s did. In 2000, the US Supreme Court recognized that changing the rules fundamentally violates the rule of law. And not even the highly partisan Florida Supreme Court could swallow disqualifying otherwise legal voters to swing an election.

“As a Republican election lawyer for 40 years, I’m for Republicans winning judicial elections. But not like this. Not when Griffin has not identified any fraudulent voters or ballots not cast in compliance with official election guidance. And not when Griffin has to ask his fellow judges to abandon principle to achieve his own electoral success. He lost a heartbreakingly close race. It happens. But it is wrong to disqualify voters who may have voted against you because of administrators’ perceived errors.”

Read the full op‑ed, click here.