Bush buying/voters selling votes for bags of pork rinds? ....

[jarab]

http://www.timesnews.net/article.dna?_StoryID=3595615

Tuesday, January 31, 2006


APPALACHIA -

Wise County Special Prosecutor Tim McAfee accompanied "multiple search teams" of the Virginia State Police to execute search warrants on the residence of Mayor/Town Manager Ben Cooper, the offices of the Appalachia Police Department and Appalachia Town Hall, the residence of acting Police Chief Ben Serber, and the residence of Town Councilman Owen Anderson "Andy" Sharrett III.

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Allegations of election fraud cropped up after the 2004 town elections. The allegations include attempts to buy votes with offers of cigarettes, beer and bags of pork rinds, and tampering with absentee ballots. Most recently, an envelope used to submit an absentee ballot was sent to crime labs for DNA testing.

"We have, I think, close to 16 agents of the Virginia State Police here today" as well as some uniformed troopers, McAfee said of Monday's investigation activities around town. He said the sorts of evidence targeted was "a long, long list of stuff," which was three pages long. Evidence being collected included handwriting samples, associations between individuals, and DNA samples from six individuals.

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While campaigning for re-election in 2004, Bush said he and another sitting Appalachia Town Council member, who was also defeated, encountered voters in Inman Village "who made comments, like, ‘What you going to give us to vote for you?' and that kind of thing. And at the time, we kind of laughed it off. It wasn't until after the election that some things started to come out and (after an article in The Roanoke Times about fraud allegations in Scott County and Appalachia) things just seem to have snowballed."

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[Dave Reynolds]

1. Never ever underestimate

the power of pork rinds.

Empires rise and fall on fried porcine epidermis.