Candidates who lost obstruct voters' will
Voters alone should decide elections. Candidates must stop running to the courts to throw out their ballots.
The Legislature and the boards of elections are to be commended for their efforts to encourage voting. Early voting and provisional ballots are good ideas. Once the ballots are cast, the voters are entitled to have them counted.
Steve Troxler won the agriculture commissioner post, and Britt Cobb finally did the right thing and conceded. June Atkinson won the public instruction post, and John Parks won a seat on the Guilford County Board of Commissioners.
Losers in those races are delaying the winners from taking their elected positions. The loser in the Board of Commissioners' race continues to occupy the seat.
Trudy Wade and Bill Fletcher should cease trying to disenfranchise voters and concede the election.
Larry Standley
Greensboro
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