The losing Republican went to a special meeting of the Buncombe County Board of Elections last night and made her case that 44 votes cast on the Warren Wilson College campus in her race should be thrown out.
During the meeting, the Republican member of the Buncombe BOE actually argued that he didn't think college students should be allowed to vote if their parents lived somewhere else (gosh! that argument sounds familiar). According to the Mountain Xpress,
At one point, an attendee in support of [the losing Republican] looked back at a group of Warren Wilson students in the packed meeting room and flashed a piece of paper on which she had written, "You are a law breaker."
The hapless Republican lost the vote in the Buncombe BOE and intends to appeal to the state BOE. The stakes are substantial. If this commissioner district goes to the Democrat, that will give the Democrats a 4-3 majority on the Buncombe County Commission.
I'm amazed there have been no comments here, with all the ASU haters around here!
ReplyDeleteFew people fail to recognize the students have a right to vote. They do recognize they should have a driver;s license that reflects their local address as per state law and that the early voting is fixed to cater to their vote because they are mostly liberal.
ReplyDeleteDem12, do you like what ASU did to Jerry Moore?