Friday, February 10, 2012
Police beat West Memphis vote fraud probe continues
Posted by Max Brantley on Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 9:43 AM
Channel 24 in Memphis provides another hint at the outline of allegations of vote fraud that are subject of a special prosecutor's review in Arkansas and probably a federal Grand Jury investigation in Little Rock. The news here is a voice mail left with one candidate by a man who later was a hired campaigner for Hudson Hallum, who narrowly won a special Democratic primary for an open House seat over Kim Felker with the help of a wide lead in absentee ballots. The caller's message indicates he wanted to talk to Felker about absentee ballots in West Memphis. She didn't respond to the call.
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Dirty politics, which includes "vote buying" and "voter hauling" has long been the way things are done in Crittenden County. There's no telling what will turn up during this federal investigation. As they say on TV-"Stay tuned"
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