Burr

I read about what happened in Carteret County where the election ‘officials’ allowed over 4000 votes to be lost. Just as in that case so many votes were lost because of incompetence many more could have been lost because of fraud and abuse.
To think that the memory of those machines is so limited is not only a joke into today’s world - it is a crime.
It is an indictment of the corrupt and unbalanced governance in Carteret County as well as throughout the entire State of North Carolina.
How else, indeed, could a man like Burr or a woman like Dole come strutting into the public eye one day and be named to the Senate the next?
From the day that North Carolina worked with the Justice Department to allow Mexican Police - who had been involved in corrupt drug deals in Mexico - to be given places in the American Witness Protection Program the State has been riddled with corrupt practices.
The Republican Party has turned from a conservative party into a bunch of radicals intent on turning our world upside down and who lie to us as they call for fiscal responsibility but ‘SPEND, SPEND, SPEND’.
Mr. Burr has the Senate office but he does not have a mandate. He is a lame duck just as is George W. Bush and that’s a good thing for the country.
I hope that Carteret County will get a good washing after all this. I think the cleaning should start with the District Attorney and the Elections Clerks.
In closing - I ask you to reflect - were fraud and incompetence instrumental in electing you to public office? It could be.