An Analysis of Challenged Voters in the 2024 NC Supreme Court Justice Election
Published February 13, 2025
By Chris Cooper
As the fight over approximately 60,000 challenged ballots in North Carolina's Supreme Court Election makes its way through the legal system, I thought it might be helpful to take a look at the challenges to determine whether (and if so, how) challenged voter differ from the overall pool of people who cast a vote in November, 2024 in North Carolina. That analysis can be found here.
Since then, Griffin has filed a briefwith the North Carolina State Supreme Court detailing his case and his preferred remedy. In that brief, he is focusing his challenges on66,499 voters spread across three groups:
• 5,509 “overseas2voters without photo ID
• 267 “Never residents”
• 60,723 voters with “incomplete voter registration”
As a result I wrote an analysis of these three groups of voters - available here
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Dr. Christopher Cooper is Madison Distinguished Professor and Director of the Haire Institute for Public Policy at Western Carolina University. His book, Anatomy of a Purple State, was recently published by the University of North Carolina Press.
