Perry County is not very populous, but it is very poor and black. Race baiters are always getting elected by promising fixes but slipping cash into their own pockets. Alabama has certain counties that this behavior is too typical and normal.
“As of the 2010 United States Census, there were 10,591 people living in the county. 68.7% were Black or African American, 30.3% White, 0.3% Asian, 0.2% Native American, 0.2% of some other race and 0.4% of two or more races. 1.1% were Hispanic or Latino (of any race).
Only 10K folks in the entire county. Not even as big as most small towns across the USA.
“Only 10K folks in the entire county. Not even as big as most small towns across the USA.”
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Thanks. It’s always good to get a local’s view on these matter.
We think of ballot fraud being mainly found in large cities and counties. Instituting it in small counties in someways is easier to do, because only a handful (as in two or three long-entrenched county leaders) have been in charge of the ballot counting in those small precincts for decades. Voters just think, “so-and-so will handle all those details” and people assume all is on the up and up.
Meanwhile, “so-and-so” installs the candidate they prefer (themself?) or turns a blind eye to ballot stuffing and fraud.