Time for Consistency on Ballot Counts
Republican champions of Steve Troxler argued for months that it was unjust to remedy a Carteret County elections error with a new statewide election. Now, the shoe appears to be on the other foot.
Thanks to new evidence from the Steve Troxler campaign, two of the three legal requirements needed for a new ag commissioner election cannot be satisfied. Time to do the right thing.
The state board of elections had four flawed choices for responding to a vote-counting snafu in Carteret County. Instead, it invented a fifth, patently ridiculous one.
The Democratic primary for state agriculture commissioner could turn out to be a tight race — though the stakes for most North Carolinians remains at best unclear.