Turns out about 450 voters cast ballots in the Jim Black-Hal Jordan race who shouldn’t have. They live in District 104, not District 100. Both districts share Precinct 106, McClintock Middle School. Jordan carried that precinct handily, 435-175.
The State Board of Elections will decide what happens next, up to and including a new election for the district. As ever, who knows where Raleigh will come down on matter of money and politics.
Whatever happens, this is a concrete case where drawing wiggy legislative districts makes the voting process clumsy. You should never be in a situation where districts share a precinct, or if you are, there had better be very, very good reasons for that confusion-ready mix. Here it is hard to escape the fact that District 104 was drawn to be a Republican seat and District 100 was drawn to be a Democratic one.
How about we just keep it simple and let the best candidates duke it out?
