North Carolina Alert…Change in election becomes black-and-white controversy
The U.S. Justice Department has demanded – and a federal judge has agreed – that residents of a North Carolina city cannot make their municipal elections nonpartisan because the Obama administration representatives don’t like the possible outcomes that could result.
The result comes in a recent case involving Kinston, where voters overwhelmingly – the victory margin was about 2-1 – decided they wanted to leave the political affiliations off of candidates’ names in their city elections.
Not so fast, said Barack Obama’s Justice Department. If the affiliations are left off, a few white voters might not know who was the Democrat, and they might vote for a member of another party, the federal officials warned, and that can’t be allowed.
After city officials waffled before the demand, several citizens challenged the order in court, and now a judge has turned them back without ruling on the issue itself. The judge said the citizens – taxpayers and voters in the city – had no “standing” to challenge how their own elections are run.
I for one, don't believe in Non-partisan elections. NC did that with all judicial offices. Did YOU know WHO to vote for all of those judicial seats? The State Supreme Court? The Appeals Court? Your local Superior and District Courts? Bet you didn't! Bet you were like most, didn't know and didn't really care....HOWEVER, it's those same judicial seats that the activists want to win so they can legislate from the bench! So, is this something good or something bad? I dunno....I like seeing an R or, a D or, an U at the end of a candidate's name.
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