[Why it's hard to beat the party establishment Part XXII: they control the voting.]
[H/t to Sam Smith's Undernews]
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Did-Lincoln-Steal-the-Arka-by-Rob-Kall-100610-259.html
June 10, 2010
Op Ed News
Did Lincoln Steal the Arkansas Election?
Rob Kall
Garland County Arkansas was the county that gave Bill Halter his
biggest "bolus" of votes. Firedoglake reports that it produced three
percent of the total votes for him in last month's three way race.
There were 42 polling places open last month. For Tuesday's race, only
two polling places were opened. There were 12,000 voters last month.
In addition, early voting was not made available to Garland County
voters. These decisions were made by a voting commission run by party
Democrats.
A lawsuit has been filed, claiming the Garland County voting commission
intentionally closed the 40 polling sites for, "the purpose of
disenfranchising " minority, elderly, poor and disabled voters in the
county. It also says that "the greater part of the voting electorate
are unable to find or reach" the polling places and are "thereby
deprived of their right to vote and were disenfranchised."
Apparently, politicsdaily reports, this is not the first time this
happened. They did the same kind of thing in 2008.
Politicsdaily also reports, "The suit filed Tuesday asks the court to
stop the certification of the votes and challenges the validity of the
runoff election. Once votes are certified in Arkansas, 10 days after an
election, it is almost impossible to challenge them."
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Michael