You have commented 338 times on Rantburg.

Your Name
Your e-mail (optional)
Website (optional)
My Original Nic        Pic-a-Nic        Sorry. Comments have been closed on this article.
Bold Italic Underline Strike Bullet Blockquote Small Big Link Squish Foto Photo
Home Front: Politix
Dead N.C. candidate easily wins election
2006-11-13
MONROE, N.C. -- A candidate for a county board who appeared in newspaper ads the weekend before the election sailed to victory with 12,000 votes - despite being dead for a month.
Normally it's the dead who do the voting...
Sam Duncan was the top vote-getter Tuesday for two seats on Union County's Soil and Water Conservation board. Although county elections officials knew of Duncan's death, no one told the voters. "We are instructed that it's not our job to do that," said Shirley Secrest, elections director. The Democratic Party ran newspaper endorsement ads about Duncan and literature distributed near the polls included his name. Party officials said they didn't know Duncan had died.

Former sheriff Frank McGuirt said he was one of the voters who helped Duncan edge out the sitting chairman who had served for about a dozen years. "I was shocked to know that poor Sam was gone," McGuirt said. "I guess I had just missed that obituary."

Duncan's seat will be filled by appointment, officials said.
Posted by:Fred

#6  And who does the appointing? Any relation to the folks who neglected to tell the voters?
Posted by: James   2006-11-13 21:53  

#5  Normally it's the dead who do the voting...

yes, perhaps they did and he was they dead-set he would win.
Posted by: anon   2006-11-13 12:11  

#4  One man became suspicious when he learned that Duncan's yard signs and bumper stickers were printed with "Norwegian Blue" ink.
Posted by: Mike   2006-11-13 11:47  

#3  Naa, do not fill the seat. Just understand HOW we prefer our politicians in this day and age. Also note, that we like the rulings better when there are none, cause no one rules better than no one.

Hey, did I vote for this guy? Probably.
Posted by: closedanger@hotmail.com   2006-11-13 03:09  

#2  FREEREPUBLIC.com > no final, be-all-end-all resolution as yet for eight contested HOUSE seats.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2006-11-13 02:02  

#1  So NC isnt all that different from Jersey...
Posted by: OldSpook   2006-11-13 01:29  

00:00