
    Brian L. BLANKENSHIP, Thomas J. Dimmock, and Frank D. Johnson v. Gary BARTLETT, as Executive Director of the State Board of Elections, Roy Cooper, as Attorney General of the State of North Carolina, and the North Carolina State Board of Elections.
    No. 455P06.
    Supreme Court of North Carolina.
    December 14, 2006.
    Donald G. Hunt, Jr., for Blankenship, et al.
    Alexander McC. Peters, Susan K. Nichols, Karen E. Long, Special Deputy Attorney Generals, for State of NC.
    ORDER
   Upon consideration of the petition filed by Plaintiffs on the 24th day of August 2006 in this matter for discretionary review under G.S. 7A-31 prior to a determination by the North Carolina Court of Appeals, the following order was entered and is hereby certified to the North Carolina Court of Appeals:

"Denied by order of the Court in conference, this the 14th day of December 2006."  