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Posted at 5:41pm on Jun. 14, 2008 Stories from Arkansas Elections: "Absentee Ballot Queen" and more

By Soren Dayton

This will make you laugh and cry. On the 12th, the Arkansas State Senate voted against expelling Senator Jack Crumbly. The problem was that the 2006 Democratic Primary that he won by 68 votes was found to be "completely corrupt." That's a quote from the statement Democratic Senator Bobby Glover contained in the report of the Senate Committee on State Agencies and Government Affairs. But this gets a whole more tastier... For example, Glover describes one campaign worker known as the "absentee ballot queen":

A paid campaign worker for Crumbly stated under oath that she personally handled between 250 to 275 absentee ballots in this election. Furthermore, this worker is known as the "absentee ballot queen" in Forrest City, ... Under Arkansas law, a bearer is only allowed to handle two absentee ballots or applications per election.

Ok. Clearly electoral laws were broken. And then there were the forged signatures:

In carefully examining the absentee applicants and ballots that would not qualify, including forged ballots, handwriting expert Dawn Reed, testified under oath that Louise Fields, a pain campaign worker for Crumbly, had made at least 75 entries on absentee ballot applications and related records. She pointed out that the same 3 people wrote numerous entries on these documents, which included the name of Louise Fields. ...

This is how Democrats run elections.

H/T Election Journal.

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Posted at 11:35am on Dec. 15, 2007 On that Former Arkansas Governor, What's-His-Name

By Vladimir

For the most part, I've been on the sidelines so far in this Presidential circus. With the exception of TDSWSNBN, I have declared my intention to ultimately vote for whichever Republican emerges from the convention as the Party's standard bearer. To me, the endless string of bot-induced anti-Candidate X diaries is mind-numbingly boring and counterproductive to the Republican cause.

That being said, the potential nomination of Mike Huckabee as Republican candidate for President next November troubles me. The reason has nothing to do with policy. He has a major handicap as a candidate that will benefit whoever gains the Democratic nomination.

Huckabee was a two-term governor of the great state of Arkansas. Somewhere along the way, he is bound to have stepped on some toes.

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Posted at 10:21pm on Nov. 12, 2007 Mike Huckabee and his campaign lying about his record [UPDATED]

By Neil Stevens

Mike Huckabee and his campaign are lying about his record in order to attempt to discredit the Club for Growth's revelations about his history of raising taxes in Arkansas.

Chip Saltsman, Mike Huckabee's campaign manager, says this on the candidate's web page:

More than 80% of the voters supported a 4-cent tax on diesel fuel to fix the roads. Similarly, the voters approved a 1/8 cent increase in the sales tax to preserve their natural and cultural heritage. The Governor would have violated his oath of office if he did not go with the will of these voters. He did not raise taxes -- the people did.

The candidate himself said the same thing on Meet the Press:

Did we raise taxes on fuel? Yes, but 80 percent of the people voted on it because it was on the ballot. So it wasn’t that I raised it. I joined with 80 percent of the people in my state to improve what was the worst road system in the country.

The problem is, it's just not true.

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