A very close election for a North Carolina Supreme Court seat heads next to a hand recount. That comes after a machine recount of well over 5 million ballots resulted in no margin change between the candidates.

With a statewide machine recount completed, incumbent Democrat Allison Riggs holds a 734-vote lead over Republican Jefferson Griffin, who is entitled to a partial hand-to-eye recount from randomly sel

A statewide recount has left both Democratic incumbent Allison Riggs and her Republican challenger Jefferson Griffin separated by the same margin as before the recount. After the remaining counties reported their recount tallies to the NC State Board of Elections,