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Eric James's Blog – May 2010 Archive (1)

Buying votes at $800 each versus rigging the whole election

Today on election day, I completed writing another chapter of my book on the history of the Jesse James family. Oddly enough, a portion of this chapter addressed the election rigging in the Arizona gubernatorial election of 1938 by relatives of the Jesse James family from Kansas City.

Just a couple of months ago here in Kentucky, almost all of the elected officials of Henry County were convicted of vote buying at $800 per vote. Their incarceration strangly leaves the county…

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Added by Eric James on May 18, 2010 at 10:31am — 1 Comment

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