# More NC Elections Shenanigans

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**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [June 17, 2018, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-nc-elections-shenanigans/816256 "2018-06-17T13:28:16Z")\
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> [@HurricaneDitka](#):
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> I don’t think it was a “dirty trick” at all. Here’s what the Speaker had to say, from LHoD’s article:

So holding off the vote indefinitely, waiting for the one moment when a representative is sick or gets caught in traffic or attends an _important memorial service_, is just fine and dandy by you?

Short-circuiting democracy and throwing ethics out the window is acceptable as long as you like the results?

Whatever happened to “elections have consequences”? Apparently they only have consequences if you can’t figure out how to game the system.

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