Armistead: Voter Fraud Alive And Well In Alabama
By: Stephen Crews
Updated: August 30, 2012
Dana
Beyerle reported on Wednesday in the Tuscaloosa News that Uniontown in
Perry County has 130 percent of their population registered to vote. In
the municipal
elections held on Tuesday, 1,431 ballots were cast, representing 125
percent of the population in Uniontown that is 18 or older. Beyerle also
reported that 45 percent of the ballots cast were absentee ballots,
compared to the 3 to 5 percent average for the
state.
"Something
is fishy in Perry County and it amazes me that Alabama Democratic Party
Chairman Mark Kennedy refuses to acknowledge the evidence placed before
him concerning voter
fraud in Alabama," stated Bill Armistead, Chairman of the Alabama
Republican Party. "It is completely obvious to anyone who looks at the
facts with an open mind that voter fraud is alive and well in Alabama.
"Unfortunately,
Kennedy is so busy trying to cloud the issue by hysterically screaming
'racism' everywhere he goes, he can't see that African American voters
are being disenfranchised
by the criminal activities such as what's happening in Uniontown,"
Armistead continued. "As former Alabama Democratic Congressman Artur
Davis told the Montgomery Advertiser earlier this year, 'The truth is
that the most aggressive contemporary voter suppression
in the African American community, at least in Alabama, is the wholesale
manufacture of ballots, at the polls and absentee, in parts of the
Black Belt.'
"Fortunately,
Artur decided to put principle above partisanship and has joined the
Republican Party in our efforts to expose and combat voter fraud in
Alabama. It is my hope
that Chairman Kennedy will put aside politics and posturing long enough
to realize he needs to investigate these claims for himself and do
everything he can to promote fair and transparent elections at every
ballot box in the state. Alabama voters, both Republican
and Democrat, deserve that much," concluded Armistead.
