Voter fraud has a shocking new meaning in eastern Kentucky. ~ Video
That is where in some cases, major cocaine and marijuana dealers
admitted to buying votes to steal elections, and the result is the
corruption of American democracy.
The government continues to mete out
justice in the scandal, as two people convicted in April in a
vote-buying case face sentencing this week, and another public official
pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiracy.
“We believe that drug money did buy votes,” Kerry B. Harvey, U.S.
attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky, said of a separate
vote-buying case.
He described a stunning vote-buying scheme that includes “very
extensive, organized criminal activity, involving hundreds of thousands
of dollars, and in many cases that involves drug money.”
Harvey has led a recent string of federal prosecutions exposing the
widespread and accepted practice of vote buying in eastern Kentucky.
The
soft-spoken federal prosecutor, along with his team and state
authorities, are waging a battle against what he characterizes as a
vote-buying culture embedded in many of the communities for generations.
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