Looking at the picture of the receptacle and I still say those grounding conductors are a violation of 300-14 of the 99 NEC "length of conductors. This article does not exclude grounding wires from meeting the conductor length, but everyone seems to allow this. When we talk about dimmer switches and the owner or even electricians install one, it is not easy to hook up the grounding wire and often is just not done. When the wires are that short they often get disconnected and it is to hard to get them hooked back up so they are left unconnected and eliminates the grounding on the rest of the circuit. I get contractors from back east that move out here to Arizona and when I enforce the grounding wire to comply with 300-14 they look at me like they never heard of such a thing. I haven't seen any mention of this. Let's check this out and enforce it.
