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I was a hog farmer from Helena, and I thought I had heard everything until I learned this. In a 2012 special election, a former state representative "fermented" a scheme to "brew" up some additional votes. The plan was to influence an election in eastern Arkansas by placing voters under the influence. VODKA FOR VOTES! It was part of a scheme to steal an election that included absentee ballot fraud and buying votes with money, food and even alcohol.
I was a hog farmer from Helena, and I thought I had heard everything until I learned this. In a 2012 special election, a former state representative "fermented" a scheme to "brew" up some additional votes. The plan was to influence an election in eastern Arkansas by placing voters under the influence. VODKA FOR VOTES! It was part of a scheme to steal an election that included absentee ballot fraud and buying votes with money, food and even alcohol.
The Pine Bluff branch of the NAACP has filed a complaint with the State Board of Election Commissioners and Arkansas Ethics Commission against Go Forward Pine Bluff.
Opponents of the Go Forward Pine Bluff-sponsored tax measures on the ballot for the Nov. 14 special election accused the nonprofit of buying votes from students at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff.