Saturday, February 27, 2010
Vote-Fraud Trial Continues
KENTUCKY....
Testifying Friday in the trial of eight Clay County residents charged with scheming to buy or steal votes between 2002 and 2007, Manchester Mayor Carmen Webb Lewis told jurors two election officials, Charles Wayne Jones and William Stivers, tried to get her to provide $1,000 to buy votes when she ran for Manchester council. Lewis said, although they didn't specify that the money was to buy votes, she understood that's what they were talking about. Lewis testified she was told: "You have to pay to win. That's how this works. Everyone does it." Lewis said she refused, even after the two reached out to her twice more. With the exception of Lewis, most witnesses so far have been felons hoping for shorter sentences, and have said that vote-buying was commonplace in Clay County for many years. But, they say their deals with prosecutors require truthful testimony.
Testifying Friday in the trial of eight Clay County residents charged with scheming to buy or steal votes between 2002 and 2007, Manchester Mayor Carmen Webb Lewis told jurors two election officials, Charles Wayne Jones and William Stivers, tried to get her to provide $1,000 to buy votes when she ran for Manchester council. Lewis said, although they didn't specify that the money was to buy votes, she understood that's what they were talking about. Lewis testified she was told: "You have to pay to win. That's how this works. Everyone does it." Lewis said she refused, even after the two reached out to her twice more. With the exception of Lewis, most witnesses so far have been felons hoping for shorter sentences, and have said that vote-buying was commonplace in Clay County for many years. But, they say their deals with prosecutors require truthful testimony.
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