The North Carolina Legislature has officially decided that your vote absolutely does not matter in this state. The voter may have elected a Republican for North Carolina Superintendent of Public Instruction last November (2004), but with a simple majority vote, the Legislature decided that they would rather have a Democrat, so they threw out the election results and replaced them with their own decision.

To review, there were over 3.3 million votes cast for the office of public instruction. After the votes were counted by Democrat-controlled boards of elections, the Democrat candidate had a lead of 8,535 votes. However, at least 11,000 votes, primarily in heavily Democrat areas were cast illegally. The State Supreme Court agreed that those votes were completely, 100% illegal according to the Constitution, and they should not be counted.

However, the Democrat-controlled legislature did not like being told that they have to obey the Constitution. So they passed a law in February that would change the rules for the PREVIOUS election (yes, that's illegal, too). They then decided that they would simply take a vote and agree the 11,000 votes, despite being absolutely and unquestionably illegal, would be valid.

The Democrats completely ignored the Constitution and voting laws and just decided with a majority, party-line vote, that the people did not know who to vote for. I'm not sure why we need to have elections any more, as the legislature now has given itself absolute power to change any election result they do not like (and that's honestly not an exaggeration).

Of course, if we haven't had a Superintendent for Public Instruction for the past 9 months, I'm not so sure we need one at all now...

Posted by: Ogre at 08:04 AM | Comments (2) | Add Comment
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