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Posted: **Wed Oct 21, 2009 1:01 pm**

This is interesting. A small city in NC did not include party affiliations on their ballots, but the DOJ forced them to do so because black people need to know who the democrats are.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news....feature

Voters in this small city decided overwhelmingly last year to do away with the party affiliation of candidates in local elections, but the Obama administration recently overruled the electorate and decided that equal rights for black voters cannot be achieved without the Democratic Party.

The Justice Department's ruling, which affects races for City Council and mayor, went so far as to say partisan elections are needed so that black voters can elect their "candidates of choice" - identified by the department as those who are Democrats and almost exclusively black.

Posted: **Wed Oct 21, 2009 1:58 pm**

That's insane. I'm all for people trying to remove the parties.

Posted: **Wed Oct 21, 2009 2:05 pm**

Partisan local elections are a rarity in North Carolina. According to statistics kept by the University of North Carolina School of Government in Chapel Hill, only nine of the state's 551 cities and towns hold partisan elections.

The hell? So one of those 9 tries to change, and they can't? But 542 others can just stay that way? wtf?

Posted: **Wed Oct 21, 2009 2:39 pm**

Nothing to see here. Move along.

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