Note that out in Washington, after the state's Democrat establishment sued Democrat-misruled King County, which then mysteriously coughed up enough extra "ballots" to take the gubernatorial election from GOP winner Dino Rossi and hand it to Democrat Christine Gregoire, Dems oppose a new election. Yet on the East Coast the opposite has happened.

In the race for agriculture commissioner, the Charlotte Observer notes that the Democrat-controlled North Carolina Board of Elections appears "bent on keeping Republican Steve Troxler from winning an election he was leading and almost certainly would have won if 4,438 missing Carteret County votes had been properly recorded Nov. 2," and is "about to disenfranchise 3,330,107 North Carolina voters by exchanging their legitimate votes cast on Nov. 2 for newer ones from as few as 10 percent of the likely voters - meaning that instead of 4,438 votes not counted, there could be something like 3 million votes discarded."

The state's second-largest paper, the Raleigh News & Observer, agrees that the Dems refuse to allow a new election limited to Carteret County because the GOP nominee surely won there and would win again.

"Certify Troxler," the Winston-Salem Journal urges.

"It's obvious that the Democratic majority on the state board is willing to do [losing Democrat incumbent Britt] Cobb's bidding, even to the extent of using parliamentary trickery to order a new election," the Jacksonville Daily News points out.

The "shameful charade" being pulled off by the three Democrats, over the objections of the board's two Republicans, will "soak the taxpayers for $3 million the state doesn't have," the Charlotte paper fumes.

And Democrats wonder why their party is vanishing in the Carolinas and the rest of the South.

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