On January 22, the North Carolina Supreme Court said it will not now decide the lawsuit filed by a Republican nominee for Supreme Court Justice, who is trying to set aside the election returns that show he narrowly lost. Griffin v North Carolina State Board of Elections, 320P24. The candidate, Jefferson Griffin, must put his lawsuit in the hands of the trial court, the Superior Court of Wake County.

Griffin has been trying to upset the election returns because he alleges that 70,000 voters should not have been allowed to vote because their registration records are incomplete in some way.