[TaxRelief]

Perhaps the article should be retitled "Edward's Legacy".

The New Observer also has an editorial on this situation:

(excerpted)

[Our] The News & Observer's editorial endorsement in the election went to Cobb, but Troxler could do the job.

And it appears he won the election fair and square, if by a narrow margin. "Fair and square" is something that cannot be used to describe the elections board's ridiculous decision. Now the state will be subject to an expensive replay that will itself not be an accurate reflection of the will of the people, since turnout is liable to be miniscule.

If the leaders of the state Democratic Party feel some sense of victory today, they should not. They ought to be ashamed of a decision that insults common sense and makes them look greedy and manipulative in the eyes of the citizens. Perhaps they would describe this as "hardball" politics. But the people of North Carolina are the ones who got beaned.

[martin_fierro]

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[William of Orange]

the Rats ain't got no shame, they show it in Washington state, they show it in Ohio (no matter how ludicrous their claims), and now in NC as well... sigh. We need some Ratbusters.

[TaxRelief]

Board orders expensive new election -news story
Statewide revote for Ag commissioner:
Editorials above, in this thread. (Even the liberal publications are balking at this Dem move.)

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[Phantom Lord]

The one thing I have not heard a single word spoken about in this whole fiasco is absentee voters, particularly members of the military serving abroad in both combat and non-combat capacities.

If a new state wide election is held will our fighting men and women get to vote absentee again? Or will the election date be too close in the future to get ballots to them?

Talk about massive disenfranchisement.

[catiwompus]

"Some 4,400 voters in Carteret County showed up to vote according to the law, were the victims of a voting-machine malfunction, and deserve to have their legitimate votes counted in the final result"

I thought the guiding mantra of democrats in states like Ohio and Washington was "count every vote"?

How do they now get away without counting these votes?

[loveliberty2]

One need only look back to the Year 2000 to see how much damage Gore's lifelong ambition and disregard for honor, combined with the determination of the Left to dominate the direction of America's future, have corrupted our elections process.

Witness the arrogance of this relatively insignificant Democratic contender Cobb and his willingness to lay a very significant burden on the taxpayers of NC as an example of that damage.