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Home Front: Politix
3 Poll Workers, 3 Felons Charged in Tenn.
2006-06-22
MEMPHIS, Tenn. Three poll workers accused of casting ballots in the name of dead voters were among six people indicted on charges of violating election laws in a state Senate race, a prosecutor announced Wednesday. Prosecutor Bill Gibbons said his investigation found no evidence of a widespread conspiracy to throw the election to either candidate.

Democrat Ophelia Ford was certified the winner over Republican Terry Roland by 13 votes last September. The state Senate overturned the election this year amid allegations of irregularities. "There was an effort on the part of certain individuals ... to cast some illegal votes for Miss Ford. But I stress that there is nothing to indicate that she knew anything about that," Gibbons said.

None of those indicted worked for either of the campaigns and neither candidate has been accused of wrongdoing, officials said. The poll workers are charged with official misconduct. Three felons who cast ballots also were charged with violating election laws. All the counts are felonies.
Posted by:Fred

#6  3 Poll Workers, 3 Felons (but I repeat myself) Charged in Tenn.

;-p
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2006-06-22 21:11  

#5  you have to know this woman's (Ophelia Ford) family. The special election was held because her brother held the seat until he was caught on tape taking thousands of dollars in bribes. Neither of them actually live in the district they represent. The Ford family has been a corrupting influence in TN politics for decades. The whole extended family is in politics and they are scum. One of them is running for Frist's U.S. Senate seat.

Posted by: psychohillbilly   2006-06-22 14:59  

#4  I always thought that the LLL had a great following with the dead. That explains while they are always quoting (or misquoting) dead people.
Posted by: Cyber Sarge   2006-06-22 14:05  

#3  The Dems have gotten themselves in such a pickle I dont think they can function cohesively for a long time, if ever. The pander to so many different and opposing special interests; Black vote, Gay vote,Union vote, Anti-War vote, Anti-Globalization vote,Big Government vote, Animal Rights, Environmental nuts, Womans Rights, and still they need to court middle America because the above mentioned people arent enough to win an election. The have been divided right down the middle on the War in Iraq, so all the factions above are split in two, doubling the complexity of the lies they have to promise. The have to be crazy to think that what they offer is what people in this country want.
Posted by: bigjim-ky   2006-06-22 11:49  

#2  I was living in Knoxville when the peace-loving, law-abiding, utterly incapable of wrongdoing Democrats shot up a Republican Party office about 2 miles from where I lived. It barely made the news and about the only thing in the articles was Democrats -deploring- whoever did it. Right as if they didn't know.

The Democratic party, in my view, will be forever tarred as the party of traitors, rapists and criminals, the party of corrupt power that would sell out their families for a vote. They won't even admit to being in their own party either, all the campaign signs around here never fail to proudly proclaim their republican, but the ones without a party affiliation I've noticed all turn out to be Democrats. So even they are ashamed of their own party, which is understandable.
Posted by: Silentbrick   2006-06-22 08:02  

#1  and here I thought only Bush stole votes.
Posted by: RD   2006-06-22 02:00  

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