Officials continue ballot investigation (Winston-Salem RAT only ward)

Journal Now ^ | 8/29/13 | Wesley Young

[Libloather]

Elections officials are continuing to investigate an incident in which nine absentee ballots were mailed to a man who lives across the hall from Phil Carter, a candidate for the Winston-Salem City Council.

The absentee ballot requests came mostly from residents of Holland Homes apartments on Mount Zion Place. What got the attention of local elections officials was that the elections office was asked to send all of the ballots to one address – the home of Benjamin Parker on E. Fifth Street.

Parker lives in an apartment across a hallway from Carter’s apartment.

Carter is in a three-way race to win the Democratic nomination to represent East Ward. The other candidates are incumbent Derwin Montgomery and former council member Joycelyn Johnson. No Republican filed to run in the heavily Democratic ward.

[Libloather]

Three of the ballots that were marked and returned to the local elections office bore Carter’s signature as a witness to the vote. Those ballots have been rejected because under state law a candidate may not act as a witness for an absentee ballot.

Moral Monday freeloaders will be floored when they hear the bad news.

[wolfpat]

Don’t the kids in that area go to Carver?

[Verginius Rufus]

This is a primary election. Why should it matter if one or more of the candidates is cheating? He’s only cheating against other Democrats (who don’t believe that voter fraud ever happens).

[Ann Archy]

VOTE FRAUD...it’s what Democrats do BEST!!