Dump the Runoff

The June 22 runoff or second primary cost the citizens of North Carolina between four and five million dollars.

Few voters turned out.

The outcome, at least in the statewide democratic party primary would have been the same without the runoff, had we accepted the vote by plurality.

Only eight states, all in the South, hold runoff primaries. In recent years, Kentucky and Florida have abandoned the runoff.

The runoff primary is a relic of an earlier time, when winning the Democratic Party Primary was tantamount to winning election in the states of the "Solid South."

It's time for the NC legislature to join Kentucky and Florida in abandoning the runoff.