Interesting that in today’s litigious society that it’s the lack of legal action — most notably from the U.S. Department of Justice, which loves to sue local governments — that leaves intact the mess that is the Guilford County Commissioners new district map, which as drawn leaves 43,000 voters without representation:
The county is just now deciding how to handle logistical problems with the law.
County Attorney Mark Payne said that’s because the county never expected it to get this far —just over three weeks before the filing date for commissioners’ races –without those issues being cleared up.
“I fully expected a lawsuit,” Payne said of the map of new voting districts at a Board of elections meeting Tuesday. “Then either a judge would give direction or the state would clarify some of this.”
The N&R’s Doug Clark calls on the General Assembly to fix this “monstrosity,” “which after all violates one of our nation’s founding principles of no taxation without representation…”
Help me out here, but in today’s society when anybody can sue anybody, can Guilford County not file suit on that basis alone?
