Vote Fraud in Alabama (sources ballotpedia, NPR and NYT):
See, Chrissie, your AG is a dumbass ... or a liar.
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==2009== Valada Paige Banks, a former member of the Greensboro City Council, pled guilty to voter fraud in September 2009 and was given a 12-month prison sentence. The sentence was suspended; however, Banks is prohibited from participating in any absentee voting or voter registration activity while she is on probation.
Banks was convicted on the evidence that she had forged an affidavit of an absentee voter. She pled guilty to criminal possession of a forged instrument with intent to defraud. [1]
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2007 Singleton named in probe Greensboro State Senator, Bobby Singleton, was accused of vote fraud in November of 2007. The senator, a Democratic legislator, was named a suspect in a voter fraud investigation by the state Attorney General Troy King.
King also asked that the judge in the case be removed, since three of his relatives are suspects. [3]
Indictment in Hale County In 2007 the state attorney general named Bobby Singleton, a state senator from Greensboro, was also charged in a vote fraud investigation. Singleton has denied the charges. [4]
2006 Chapman says fraud is problem Secretary of State-elect Beth Chapaman said that absentee ballots sent through the mail is the biggest threat as a voter fraud problem. [5]
Democracy Defense League fights fraud The Democracy Defense League, a group of mostly Hale County residents, formed to push for law enforcement to investigate election fraud, and to lobby to tighten absentee-voting procedures. [6] [7]
Ineligible voters Mobile County District Attorney John Tyson Jr. brought 53 fellony counts against an unsuccessful Alabama House candidate, Darren Lee Flott, and a nursing home worker, Angie Corine Green. [8] The two face allegations for filing absentee ballots bearing the names of nursing home patients from a July 2006 Democratic runoff election. [9]
2005 City Council member indicted Former Greensboro City Council member Valada Paige Banks and another woman were indicted by a Hale County grand jury. Banks was charged with one count of possessing a forged affidavit for an absentee voter, and four counts of promoting illegal absentee voting. [10]
Clerk indicted on multiple counts A 13-count indictment resulted from the elections in 2004 and the spring of 2005 when Gay Nell Tinker was charged with possessing a forged absentee voter affidavit, promoting illegal absentee voting, and committing perjury. [4] [11]
2004 Problems with absentee voters Dozens of absentee voters had questionable addresses in the Aug. 24 Greensboro municipal election. A block filled with several small mobile homes registered at least 40 voters. [12]
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Alabama County Accused Of Voter Fraud
by Audie Cornish
July 14, 2008
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July 14, 2008
Once, civil rights activists faced police batons and tear gas over the voting rights of people in Perry County in Alabama. Voting troubles still plague the community. State and federal officials have been looking into accusations of voting rights abuses. This time, the concern is voter fraud and inflated absentee balloting.
STEVE INSKEEP, host:
Prosecutors in Alabama say they've seen one type of corrupt election replaced by another. Alabama's one of the states where black citizens marched for the right to vote in the 1960s. Whites who resisted with violence are still being prosecuted today, and the Voting Rights Act commanded an end to discrimination.
It seems not to have affected basic corruption at the ballot box. That's the story some voters told NPR's Audie Cornish.
AUDIE CORNISH: Griff Collins(ph) claims he was offered $30 for his vote in a recent election, but his relatives say he's taken so much heat for speaking out about it, he didn't make it to our interview. Instead, his cousin, Wanda Reed Sanders(ph), came in his place, adding her own story of how she believes a county commissioner tried to manipulate her absentee ballot.
Ms. WANDA REED SANDERS: He came around to my house, and he say when the ballot come back, he was going to come and pick my ballot up. And I told him, I said no, you're not coming back to my house anymore. And he called me all kind of names.
CORNISH: Alabama's attorney general seized the voting records of Perry and two other rural counties after local activists complained. At a recent anti-voter fraud rally in Marion, Secretary of State Beth Chapman asked for help.
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Ms. VANESSA HILL: It wasn't so much the fact that I had lost. I can accept defeat, but it was the way that it was done, and everything was so obvious.
CORNISH: So obvious that when she challenged the election, the state courts agreed that her opponent's so-called win involved shady absentee ballots - this in the past of the state where 40 years ago, citizens demonstrated in the face of brutal police force, and civil rights activists like Martin Luther King joined their efforts.
Alvin Benn is a newspaper columnist with the Montgomery Advertiser.
Mr. ALVIN BENN (Columnist, Montgomery Advertiser): You've got to understand, some of these Black Belt counties in the mid-'60s, before the voting rights law went into effect, did not have one black voter on the rolls - not one.
CORNISH: Benn says these days, it seems like the counties have swapped corrupt black candidates for the old white ones. One of the first cases Benn covered as a reporter in 1980s involved the federal trial of three black elected officials, themselves civil rights activists, who were accused of voter fraud. All were acquitted. But today, one of their sons faces similar allegations. And when I caught up with Perry County Commissioner Albert Turner, Jr. by some fountains at a convention center, he denied the accusations.
Mr. ALBERT TURNER, JR. (County Commissioner, Perry County, Alabama): They are alleging vote fraud. Nobody's been convicted. My father wasn't convicted. My mother wasn't convicted, and I know for myself what I've done, and I've done nothing, and I don't even waste any sleep thinking about a vote fraud investigation.
CORNISH: Turner points to GOP-backed attempts to tighter voter ID laws and says it's no surprise that Republican state prosecutors are searching for fraudulent votes, especially in a year with a large and energetic black Democratic turnout. Still, voters both white and black continue to come forward with claims, and while some people are afraid to speak up, Wanda Reed Sanders isn't.
Ms. SANDERS: I'm going to vote, and I'm going to vote the way I want to vote, not the way somebody would want me to vote.
CORNISH: And her next chance is tomorrow, in what will be a closely scrutinized county election. Audie Cornish, NPR News, Selma, Alabama.
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Officials Investigate 3 Alabama Counties in Voter Fraud Accusations http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/10/us/10fraud.html
ARTICLES ABOUT ABSENTEE VOTING
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National News Briefs; Civil Rights Leader Gets Jail Term for Vote Fraud Alabama civil rights leader Spiver Gordon is sentenced to six months in Federal prison for vote fraud, for asking nonresident to fill out absentee ballot in Greene County
June 6, 1999
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HEADLINERS; GUILTY IN ALABAMA In the 1960's, Spiver Gordon fought to insure that all the citizens of Alabama had the right to vote. Last week, Mr. Gordon, a director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, was found guilty of abusing that right.
October 20, 1985
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 BLACK ACTIVIST GUILTY IN ALABAMA VOTING CASE
AP
An all-white Federal jury convicted a black voting rights activist today on four counts of abusing the absentee voting process. It was the Justice Department's first conviction in its investigation of vote fraud in five Alabama counties whose residents are mostly black people. The jury convicted Spiver Gordon, 46 years old, a Eutaw City Councilman who is a member of the board of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, after first recommending that he be granted clemency.
October 17, 1985
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ALABAMA ACTIVIST IS ACQUITTED
AP
Federal jurors today acquitted one of two black political activists accused of voting fraud, but they said that they were deadlocked in the case against his co-defendant. The panel found Fredrick Daniels, 47 years old, not guilty after more than 11 hours of deliberations over two days.
October 12, 1985
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BLACKS PROTESTING 2D VOTE-FRAUD TRIAL IN ALABAMA
SPECIAL TO THE NEW YORK TIMES
Jury selection begins Monday in the trial of the first of five Greene County voting rights workers charged by a Federal grand jury with vote fraud. The trial, of James Colvin, Mayor of Union, comes amid increased pressure by local and national black leaders to stop Federal investigations and prosecutions in Alabama's Black Belt that they say are racially and politically motivated. Others from Greene County who are scheduled to go on trial in the next month include Spiver Gordon, who is a Eutaw ...
August 26, 1985
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Voter Fraud Charges in Hale County
Associated Press (2008-03-19)
HALE COUNTY, AL (APR - Alabama Public Radio ) - Former Hale County Circuit Clerk Gay Nell Tinker was arrested Tuesday on felony charges stemming from a probe of vote fraud in west Alabama.
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