[nicmarlo]

I always figured there was the occasional dirty Republican, but isn't it interesting that even when there is there is generally a Rat behind it?

Ain't that the truth; now, if you look at all the Rat fraud, how many times can you say that a Republican's been behind it? I can't think of one occasion, honestly. Quite something, that, no?

[sweetliberty]

It was just announced today that a special grand jury is being convened to investigate problems with elections in Pulaski County. Wirestripper said they are trying to do something similar in Jefferson County, but the problem is that it sounds like in Jefferson County they are going to try and focus on "intimidation" tactics (translation: attempts to keep elections legitimate) by poll watchers. Anyway, here is the text from the article from the Arkansas Democrat Gazette from today. A link would be pointless because you have to subscribe to the print version to access the online version.

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120 picked for election grand jury pool BY AMY UPSHAW

One hundred twenty Pulaski County voters will soon learn that they were selected Monday for a pool of potential special grand jury members to investigate problems with the county election system.

Notices summoning the prospective grand jurors to appear were printed Monday afternoon and will be served by Pulaski County sheriff ’s deputies, said Janice Hay, chief deputy of the county-circuit clerk’s office.

This is the first time in a decade that a special grand jury has been called in Pulaski County.

Pulaski County Circuit Judge John Langston spent about 15 minutes drawing 120 numbers, which correspond to names on the voter-registration database, from a pool of 2,438 numbers in his court’s jury wheel Monday morning.

County-Circuit Clerk Carolyn Staley, whose work on elections will be among the items reviewed by the grand jury and whose office handles jury summonses, sat next to Langston as he called out the numbers in court.

On Jan. 17, Langston will question the panel and choose at least 16 grand jurors and alternate jurors, who are to suggest ways to improve an often problematic Pulaski County election process.

Pulaski County Prosecuting Attorney Larry Jegley requested the special grand jury last year when county officials revealed that information was missing or inaccurate for nearly half of the county’s 242,000 registered voters in Staley’s voter-registration database.

Problems continued when the Pulaski County Election Commission acknowledged that hundreds of thousands of ballots were misprinted. A reprint cost $60,000, but it did not correct all of the mistakes.