The Town of Stallings, NC has decided to redraw voting district representation to ensure the representative voting districts will more equally characterize (plus or minus 5%) “residents’ representation as required by law”. This Town of Stallings’ Board is to be commended for their action to make this positive correction which has been created by Stallings’ growth.

When will our Union County, NC Board of Education and their legal counsel take notice and follow Stallings’ leadership? How long will it take for our UC Board of Education and their legal counsel to follow the law and change their “district representation as required by law”? What is their legal advice on this matter? When one voting district has more than three (3) times as many voters as another voting district, any blind person must recognize the UC Board of Education’s district voting inequities as required by law. Where is the leadership?

The difference between real moral leadership and day to day politics is doing what is “right for the
people”, and by the law, even at the cost of your own personal politics, any election, and/or reelection. In politics, principled decision changes of this matter separate the wheat from the chaff.

When will our elected leaders, and their legal counsel, on the UC Board of Education recognize that? Failure to correct this wrong is sending the wrong message to our children, whom they yourselves, are hiding deceitful representative educational decisions. Their failure is “just cause” which should continue to keep Union County, NC covered under the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Sincerely,

Oscar Y. Harward

From the “Patriot Post” of June 18, 2007

"In the midst of these pleasing ideas we should be unfaithful
to ourselves if we should ever lose sight of the danger to our
liberties if anything partial or extraneous should infect the
purity of our free, fair, virtuous, and independent elections."
-- John Adams (Inaugural Address, March 1797)