Something smells fishy in Perry County all right.
My favorite right wing talk show host/blogger is using a report by Montgomery based reporter Dana Beryl, published in The Gadsden Times regarding voter turnout in Perry Couny as proof black voter fraud is alive and well, and justification for Voter Suppression Laws.
Sigh..
According to Beryl's headline and lead paragraph, the United States Justice Department should have sent Federal Election Monitors to Uniontown Alabama, which happens to be majority black, because they had more registered voters than people on election day, with an 55% turnout, representing 80.6% of the towns 2010 population. Key words 2010 population.
The chairwoman o the Perry County Board of registrars is quoted in the article saying 279 of the 2576 voters were "removable" because they were either dead or having been convicted of felonies. So, why didn't the board of registers "remove" them" prior to election? Is there proof the dead and ex felons cast votes in the mayoral election? If so, produce it.
An unnamed election official is quoted in the article saying there were 650 absentee ballots cast (not to be confused with counted) in the Uniontown election. Beryl then notes an absentee ballot is to given only to voters who say they will be out of town on election day. Which naturally leads republicans to conclude the high number of absentee ballots invite fraud.
Perry County Commissioner Albert Turner, Jr. said high voter turnout was the due to voters showing their appreciation to the Mayor and the City Council for the4.8 million dollar grant Uniontown received from the United States Department of Agriculture to repair and expand it's water treatment system, hopefully fixing decades of sewer problems.
You think?
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