Republican Jefferson Griffin plans to appeal a Wake County court loss in his effort to invalidate more than 60,000 North Carolina ballots cast during the November elections. Griffin, the GOP candidate in the still-undecided race for a seat on the state Supreme Court,

Just hours after a hearing on Judge Jefferson Griffin’s challenge to more than 65,000 ballots in the state Supreme Court election, a state judge upheld the state election board’s rejection of those claims in a late Friday ruling.

In the nation’s last unresolved election, the fourth month of litigation began with Friday’s Wake County Superior Court decision that went against Republican candidate Jefferson Griffin. Victory for Democrat Allison Riggs,