The challenge to North Carolina’s Supreme Court election grows more complicated by the day. Voters caught up in the turmoil have questions about how the race got here and how it may be resolved.

Three counts show an incumbent Democrat won election to the State Supreme Court. But an unusual protest by the G.O.P. challenger could be headed to that same Republican-controlled court.

In late filings released Tuesday night, two conservative justices signaled a challenge of 60,000 ballots from Republican candidate Jefferson Griffin may not be able to overturn the results of an election where the Democratic incumbent,

Democratic state Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs appears to have defeated Republican Jefferson Griffin in the 2024 election. But Griffin thinks he will win if courts go along with his request to declare 60,