[Durham INC] Public hearing on Change in Election Process for City Council

[Erin Kennedy]

Hi, folks,

Whitney May responded to Ms. Guyton's inquiry on the NPNA listserv.  I'm
forwarding it to the other list serves as well, if folks are interested.

Erin Kennedy



---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Whitney May <whitneyemay at yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 10:34 AM
Subject: [NPNA] Re:Public hearing on Change in Election Process for City
Council
To: NPNA at yahoogroups.com



Currently the City of Durham holds a non-partisan municipal primary and a
non-partisan municipal election in the odd numbered years.  The results of
these two democratic events are determined by NCGS 163-294. Pretty standard
practice.  It costs the city about $360k, the bulk of this being people
(living wage) and ballots.

The City Council is considering a resolution to change the city charter to
have municipal elections in the odd numbered years via the
non-partisan plurality method.  The results of this single election
event are determined by NCGS 163-292.  Again, pretty standard- highest vote
getter wins.  This would cost the city about half of $360k given that the
primary would be eliminated.

This was proposed to the City Council by the Durham County BOE strictly as a
cost-saving device.  Of course many local folks and community
groups are hypothesizing about who will benefit or suffer from the change.
The fact remains that each of our election processes have the potential to
elect both fantastic and dreadful officials.

I recommend the NC General Assembly statute look-up site for all the juicy
details of our state's election law...
http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/Statutes/Statutes.asp

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