Movement to change "limited voting" on the Board of Commissioners dies a natural death | Eastern NC Now

    Publisher's Note: This article originally appeared in the Beaufort Observer.

    After all was said and done, a lot more was said than done…on changing the method of electing County Commissioners in Beaufort County.

    It all came to an end Monday night when Commissioner Gary Brinn announced that the study committee had voted unanimously to drop the effort to change the system. It accept a recommendation from County Manager Randell Woodruff to not spend any county money in a court battle unless some citizen(s) chose to file a suit against the County to force a change. There is no anticipation that such would happen at the present time.

    Commissioner Gary Brinn had campaigned before the 2012 elections on a platform of trying to get the system changed. That's how the committee, chaired by him, came into being. But in the end the committee and Commissioner Brinn came back to what every other attempt to change the system has…the alternatives seem worse than keeping the current system.

    If you search our archives for "limited voting" you can read a number of articles on the topic.

    But the video below tells the final story: