Griffin, a Republican, has asked the North Carolina Supreme Court to force the state Board of Elections to throw out more than 60,000 votes that he claims, in part, are invalid because voters' registration applications were incomplete.

Republican Jefferson Griffin narrowly lost his race for a North Carolina Supreme Court seat. He’s asking the justices to throw out tens of thousands of votes.

In this moment of crisis, the courts have become the final guardrail against the forces of authoritarianism that seek to undermine the will of the voters.