RALEIGH, N.C. — A mobile billboard will be deployed in Raleigh to call attention to Justice Jefferson Griffin’s shameless attempt to overturn the result of the 2024 state Supreme Court race that he lost to Justice Allison Riggs by asking his Republican friends on the court to toss out 60,000 perfectly legitimate votes from both Democrats and Republicans.

The billboards are part of a campaign by Americans for Prosparody, the Raleigh-based super PAC that helped call attention to the dangerous extremism of gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson and partnered with the comedy duo The Good Liars to create a viral video that helped defeat Michele Morrow, the Q-anon conspiracy theorist with a kill list who ran for state superintendent of public instruction last year.

“Jefferson Griffin’s frontal assault on democracy cannot be allowed to succeed,” said Todd Stiefel, founder of Americans for Prosparody. “Of the 60,000 votes Griffin is asking his Republican buddies to toss on a bonfire, not a single one has been proven to be cast by someone who wasn’t eligible to vote. Not one. This move by Republican justices would disenfranchise tens of thousands of Republican voters who showed a valid ID when they voted.”

The billboard shows the current five Republican members of the court and Griffin laughing and standing around a bonfire of the 60,000 legal votes Griffin wants thrown out.

Griffin has called Chief Justice Paul Newby “a good friend and mentor.” He wants that good friend and the rest of the Republican supermajority on the Supreme Court to install him by throwing out the ballots of 60,000 voters who registered at a time when the voter registration form did not ask for either the last four digits of their Social Security number or their driver’s license number. In order to cast a ballot, though, those voters had to show valid identification. Griffin also wants to toss ballots by some North Carolina citizens residing overseas — even though they have the legal right to vote in state elections.

This anti-democratic strategy was concocted by a group of far-Right election deniers looking for ways to challenge close elections before the first votes were even cast, but the scheme was dismissed as “voter suppression” by the leader of that group.

“The Republican members of the North Carolina Supreme Court should know that throwing out tens of thousands of legal votes to install their favored candidate constitutes a blatant act of corruption,” Stiefel said. “The voters have spoken, and Griffin’s attempt to overturn their will has failed multiple times — he lost two recounts, the state election board dismissed his challenge and a federal court denied an earlier attempt to toss out even more votes based on the same ludicrous theory.

“If Republicans on the North Carolina Supreme Court throw out legal votes or call for new elections until their friend wins, I will make it a personal crusade to expose their corrupt actions nationally.”

The mobile billboard’s route will include the North Carolina Capitol and the state Supreme Court building.