It drove Drega over the edge, and he decided to take a lot of people with him. That he did.
If he had taken the matter to court, he would have likely won it on constitutional issues. Town Clerks up here have since gotten very polite with tax payers.
I am “up here” also, CD was a wacko. We have had his type in my town, and the ones I have seen in action do not act they way they do because they have been treated hard. But there is two sides to every story.