A federal judge ordered North Carolina officials to certify the result of last year’s state Supreme Court election, dismissing challenges to certain ballots by Republican Jefferson Griffin. Griffin’s campaign disputed the legality of the registration of the 60,

Chief U.S. District Judge Richard Myers in Raleigh sided with Justice Allison Riggs ordering N.C.'s election board to not throw out any ballots.

The back-and-forth legal saga has gone on for six months over an election that Justice Allison Riggs won by 734 votes.