Jefferson Griffin
en.wikipedia.org

... In the 2024 election, Griffin lost narrowly to incumbent Democratic justice Allison Riggs, by a margin of 734 votes out of more than 5.5 million cast. Following three recounts indicating his loss, rather than concede, Griffin filed suit in state court, arguing that approximately 60,000 votes should be disqualified.

Griffin said no ballots should count for voters whose voter registration does not include a driver's license number or the last four digits of a social security number.[3]

There are many legitimate reasons why such information is not included in a voter registration.[3] The North Carolina state election board and a Donald Trump-appointed federal judge have rejected Griffin's claims.[3] The case is currently pending before the North Carolina Supreme Court; Riggs has recused herself from the case.[4] ...

They Followed North Carolina Election Rules When They Cast Their Ballots. Now Their Votes Could Be Tossed Anyway. (January 2025)
www.propublica.org

... A Republican judge is trying to overturn his election loss by challenging more than 60,000 ballots. These are some of those voters' stories. ...

U.S. Appeals Court Strikes Down North Carolina's Voter ID Law (2016)
www.npr.org

...The appeals court noted that the North Carolina Legislature "requested data on the use, by race, of a number of voting practices" -- then, data in hand, "enacted legislation that restricted voting and registration in five different ways, all of which disproportionately affected African Americans."

The changes to the voting process "target African Americans with almost surgical precision," the circuit court wrote, and "impose cures for problems that did not exist."

The appeals court suggested that the motivation was fundamentally political -- a Republican legislature attempting to secure its power by blocking votes from a population likely to vote for Democrats....

Georgia's GOP House Speaker says vote-by-mail system would be 'devastating to Republicans' (April 2020)
thehill.com

..."... a multitude of reasons why vote by mail in my view is not acceptable," [Georgia state House Speaker David] Ralston went on, before adding "the president said it best, this will be extremely devastating to Republicans and conservatives in Georgia." ...

"The things they had in there were crazy. They had things, levels of voting that if you ever agreed to, you would never have a Republican elected in this country again," [fmr Pres] Trump said...

So then, I guess the question seems to become ...

Why does North Carolina seem to want to suppress the votes of those who do not usually vote for Republicans?