The Halifax County Board of Elections will meet on Friday at 10 a.m. in the Historic Courthouse at 10 North King Street in Halifax to conduct a recount for the associate justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court justice race. 

The recount will be conducted in the Commissioners Meeting Room located on the second floor.

During the recount, all eligible ballots cast for absentee by mail, early voting, election day, and provisional ballots will be reinserted into the voting tabulators to confirm the vote totals.

Members of the public may attend the recount to observe. 

Individuals attending the recount shall not disrupt or interfere with the counting process or observe individual ballots. 

The use of video or still cameras by the public inside the recount room is not permitted due to statutory prohibition on photographing or videotaping individual ballots.

The recount is tied to the small lead incumbent Allison Riggs has over her Republican challenger Jefferson Griffin, board of elections Supervisor Kristen Scott confirmed.

The Associated Press reported Monday that Riggs had trailed on election night by roughly 10,000 votes to Griffin, a state Court of Appeals judge.

That margin dwindled last week as election boards in the state’s 100 counties reviewed information associated with tens of thousands of provisional and absentee ballots and added voting choices of those that qualified for counting to totals.

County boards held their local canvass meetings on Friday, and by the evening, Riggs had overtaken Griffin from the over 5.5 million ballots cast for the race.