Election-Campaign Law

Election-rigging scheme alleged in Kentucky

By Michael Alvarez

One of my colleagues at the NAS workshop passed along this account of an alleged election-rigging scheme in Kentucky.

Here’s a snip from a different media account that provides some details about how the alleged scheme operated:

This is how the alleged scheme worked, the indictment said: Maricle and Adams recruited candidates to run for local offices; Thompson provided large sums of money to buy votes; Jones instructed other election officers how to buy votes at polling places; Stivers helped cast corrupt votes, and Bishop and the Morrises bought votes for the candidates that Maricle and Adams had recruited.

Full post as published by Election Updates on March 20, 2009 (boomark / email).