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Republicans had better tend to their own electoral tricks
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Aug 03, 2004 09:05pm |
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| Category | Scandal |
| Media | Newspaper - Arizona Daily Star (Tuscon) |
| News Date | Tuesday, August 3, 2004 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Maybe a few of the state's top Republicans are right about something after all. There is electoral fraud in Arizona.
For months now, key GOP leaders have been screaming about massive voter fraud in Arizona committed by noncitizens. Party honchos like state Rep. Randy Graf, R-Green Valley, insist it's happening, although no state election has been tainted by evidence of voting by undocumented immigrants.
But recent voting high jinks did not involve undocumented immigrants and other noncitizens. The electoral subterfuge is right smack in the center of the state's Republican ruling clique.
In May, Tucson Republican Mike Hellon lost his party post as national committeeman. Party voters gave the moderate Republican the boot in an intra-party election won by conservative challenger Randy Pullen of Phoenix.
Arizona's Republicans elect three people to the party's national committee. The contest was heated, and when it cooled Pullen won by five votes out of 573 cast.
But questions about the election's validity moved the state party leadership to conduct an internal investigation. The investigation revealed that a few Pullen supporters voted more than once using other delegates' credentials. Overzealous partisans stuffed the ballot box in good ol' fashioned election chicanery. |
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