On June 22, a North Carolina Administrative Law Judge ruled that Al Pisano, Constitution Party gubernatorial candidate in 2020, should not be required to pay a fine of $2,750 for having been late with his campaign finance reports. Here is the Opinion. It says that the North Carolina Board of Elections failed to follow its own procedures. The procedures say that the Board should have notified Pisano immediately when they didn’t receive his report. Instead they did not communicate with him until a year later, when they sent him a bill for $2,750.

The Administrative Law Judge also found that when Pisano asked for a waiver, the Board did not even address most of his points, and the letter denying waiver was unsigned and didn’t even appear to address the type of fine that had been levied. Thanks to Kevin Hayes for the link.