The results of a contested North Carolina Supreme Court race could flip in favor of the Republican after the state’s Court of Appeals ruled Friday that tens of thousands of votes must be recounted and verified.

Republican candidate Jefferson Griffin trails appointed Democrat incumbent Justice Allison Riggs by just 734 votes out of more than 5.5 million cast in the 2024 election, the Carolina Journal reported.

Griffin challenged more than 65,000 ballots from Democrat-leaning voters who lacked either a driver’s license number or the last four digits of a Social Security number in their registration records.

Riggs has referred to Griffins challenge as an attempt “to disenfranchise more than 65,000 voters,” and is raising money for her campaign to keep her seat through the Democrats’ corrupt funding platform Act Blue, which encourages illegal election contributions, according to a recently released House Judiciary Committee investigation.