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In his ongoing pursuit of a seat on the state Supreme Court, Republican candidate Jefferson Griffin has argued that the ballots of 5,509 overseas and military voters should be tossed because they didn’t have to provide photo ID—a rule both the State Board of Elections and a Republican-appointed rules commission had approved with little fuss. […]

Michael Hewlett is a courts and law reporter for The Assembly. He was previously a legal affairs reporter at the Winston-Salem Journal and has won two Henry Lee Weathers Freedom of Information Awards.

Jeffrey Billman is a politics and law reporter for The Assembly. The former editor-in-chief of INDY in Durham, he holds a master's degree in public policy analysis from the University of Central Florida.