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  N.C. Democrats leave Edwards off the ballot
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Last EditedRBH  Feb 08, 2008 06:34pm
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News DateSaturday, February 9, 2008 12:00:00 AM UTC0:0
DescriptionNorth Carolinians will not get a chance to vote for John Edwards.
State Democratic Party Chairman Jerry Meek excluded Edwards from a list of candidates he submitted Tuesday to the State Board of Elections for the May 6 primary. The Democrats on the North Carolina ballot will be U.S. Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York and Barack Obama of Illinois -- and former Sen. Mike Gravel of Alaska.

Meek, who has discretion under state law on whom to include on the ballot, said Tuesday that he had hoped to confer with the Edwards campaign before making his decision.

But Meek said no one with the campaign returned his calls.

Meek said he based his decision on the law, which says the ballot should include "all candidates whose candidacy is generally advocated and recognized in the news media throughout the United States or in North Carolina."

Assuming that there is one voter out there for Gravel, that means he will get more votes in North Carolina than Edwards. Write-in votes are not counted in North Carolina primaries.
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