Breaking Arkansas Election Laws - From the Top Down

Bill Smith, Editor: In the below article by JB William, the culture of corruption developed by 136 years of plantation politics is highlighted. To a large degree many of the situations in Arkansas are created by what Democrat Governor Mike Beebe calls "customs and practices." The end result is that laws passed by democrats are even ignored. In summary, Democrats who control the state and elections are deciding which laws they will or will not follow.

Governor Beebe, a lawyer, should understand that following and enforcing laws equally is a responsibility of his position. He should protect the rights of all citizens equally under the law. At the rate things are going under his leadership, he should be debarred and hopefully not re-elected. The apple doesn't fall to far from the tree. Recall that the prior Democrat Governor Jim Guy Tucker went to prison and predecessor Impeached President and former Governor Bill Clinton was debarred. After serving in the legislature under these men, democrats seem to see "customs and practices" and "breaking elections laws" as acceptable.

Let's add to this discussion 75 county persecutors and the Arkansas Attorney General who has not shown a willingness to protect all voters. As for Arkansas County prosecutors, they have no review or oversight. They may refuse to prosecute people violating election laws and there is no appeal of their decision.

Consider a prior election in Baxter County, Arkansas, where the election commissions turned over the names of individuals found to have voted twice. The democratic county prosecutor refused to prosecute claiming the people were old and confused. However, one of those voters was not old but was a fellow reportedly a democrat and the spouse of a prominent democrat leading a major building program in the county. Most Arkansas county prosecutors are democrats and have shown no desire to pursue election felony violations. Of course they might view things differently if the violation were committed by independents or members of other political parties. Again, there is no appeal to force county prosecutors to prosecute violation of election laws - what an open cesspool!

The below article details problems in Stone County, Arkansas. But this is not the only county with serious problems. Consider that in Fulton County, Arkansas, the democrat election commissioners have selected all the poll workers. Even though Republicans have been formally trained as poll workers by an Arkansas certified trainer, the democrats have denied these individuals as poll workers. Under Arkansas law, the number of republicans working the polls is to be one person less than the number of democrats working the polls. The law is one thing; the actions by democrats are another.

In addition to election law violations, Democrats who control the Arkansas legislature have developed laws giving democrats other advantages in elections. Most significantly, consider Arkansas early voting where 50% of the votes may be cast in counties during the two weeks period before the scheduled election (e.g., Nov 2nd for the General Election). County Clerks are allowed to opt to hold and run early voting at the county courthouses. A majority (say 80%) of county clerks in Arkansas are Democrats. When the County Clerk runs they early voting, the clerks and poll workers do not come under the control of the County Election Commission which is charged to run fair and proper elections. Most County Clerks hire all poll workers for early voting at the court houses without considering the required political representation required for the regular and all other elections held in the county. And, these poll workers are not required to be trained or managed by the election commissions.

In addition, Arkansas election laws bar candidates from visiting polling places except to cast their vote. In other words, they may not observe the election process. They may approve others to be poll watchers on their behalf. This law is designed to reduce electioneering by the candidate at polling sites. However, this requirement is not applicable for incumbents running for re-election. Since they "have business" in the County Office building where early voting occurs, they may wear name badges and walk through voters to their or other county offices. Often, their names are displayed on the walls or doors of county offices. But even worse, the County Clerk is often a candidate on the ballot and is running early voting. This would be prohibited for the elections under the oversight of the election commissioners. Also, all the early voting election workers owe their employment and allegiance to the County Clerk verse being trained and responsive to the oversight of County Election Commissioners.

Both corruption and the seeds of corruption in the election process in Arkansas run deep and are in place to protect incumbent democrats. In the 2008 general presidential election, Pulaski County Clerk Pat O'Brien (Little Rock, Arkansas) ran early voting, was a candidate for County Clerk, and directed the presidential campaign for Barack Obama. He is now running for Secretary of State and if elected would control the Arkansas election process and the State Election Commission. Also, if elected, he has refused to reject running the 2012 campaigns for Democrats including Barack Obama. Such is the nature of Arkansas Democratic politics. In the past 136 years, democrats have controlled Arkansas elections and we can smell the dead fish which is rotten from the head (the Governor's office) down through state and county government.

Below is an article addressing a serious situation in Stone County, Arkansas where the breaking of election laws by democrats is an attempt to influence who will be the county's leading law enforcement official - the County Sheriff. In addition to this article, another source revealed:
"The sheriff race just shows you all the corruption we have in Stone County. The latest story is that Governor Beebe came to Mountain View to meet with our illegal sheriff candidate Lance Bonds and made a deal and promised our illegal sheriff candidate he will be on the ballot. Tuesday the Arkansas State Attorney was in town. Again we heard he meet with Lance Bonds."

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Arkansas Democrats Busted Breaking Election Laws
By JB Williams: Systemic corruption throughout the Arkansas Democrat Party in charge of the election process is exposed and under fire, thanks to state and local citizen precinct activists who understand the true power of the precinct delegate position.

Arkansas has been controlled by Democrats for so many years that there was barely a Republican Party presence in the state prior to citizen activists learning and employing the precinct strategy. During their tenure, Democrats had even installed unconstitutional state election laws making it all but impossible for the Republican Party to function in the state. There were even laws that require two Democrat poll watchers for every Republican poll watcher in the state.

But when citizen precinct activists started building a Republican Party from the ground up in county after county, Democrats found themselves exposed and under legal attack from “We the People” as the Democrat Party broke one election law after another in a desperate effort to retain power.

. . . Democrat corruption in Stone County, where an all out battle is under way for local power in the mid-term elections and the lengths to which Arkansas Democrats will go to retain power, from the Governor’s office to the state Election Commission, is nothing shy of astonishing. Although the corruption is systemic from top to bottom in the Arkansas DNC, at the epicenter of the current controversy is a fight for the office of Sheriff in Stone County. It all started with a botched DNC primary.

The May 18 DNC primary failed to produce a DNC candidate for Stone County sheriff leading to a runoff between two DNC candidates, incumbent sheriff Todd Hudspeth and DNC challenger Lance Bonds on June 8 which also ended in a tie. When the Stone County Election Commission certified the tie, leaving the DNC without a candidate in the race for sheriff, Democrat Governor Mike Beebe stepped in on June 23 and ordered a special election in an effort to produce a DNC candidate for sheriff. However, state election laws do not allow for a special election in this case.

On July 8, . . . sheriff candidate Russ Aiken became lead plaintiff in a suit against Governor Beebe and the Stone County Election Commission for breaking state election laws in their effort to run roughshod over the election process and the people of Arkansas. Although the judge did not initially stop the DNC special election, on August 16, 2010, Judge Jay L. Moody ruled in favor of the plaintiff. He stated that there was no constitutional authority in the state of Arkansas to declare a special primary election to break a tie for a general primary runoff election, once again leaving the DNC without a candidate for Stone County sheriff.

Two days later on August 18, the state DNC held a special convention for the purpose of selecting a DNC candidate. However, Judge Moody had already ruled on August 16 that the DNC could not use any other ploy to circumvent election laws which would end in the same result. There was just no end to state DNC efforts to make it up as they go.

The DNC was not to conduct any subsequent activities that would mimic the results of the illegal August 3 election, i.e. Lance Bonds couldn't be the nominee. Yet state Democrats had done exactly that, leaving Republican candidate Russ Aiken with no choice but to file a contempt of court brief as the state DNC had once again violated state election laws, this time ignoring Judge Moody’s ruling as well. The contempt brief was filed on September 7 and the court date is set for October 21.

Meanwhile, state Democrat Election Commissioners Betty Allred and Bob Turner are blocking state GOP election commissioner {Vernon] Humphrey from appointing Republican poll workers in accordance with state election laws, denying state Republicans their constitutional right to participate in the election process and assure that the process is legitimate.

In a very blunt warning to Arkansas Democrats Allred and Turner, GOP attorney Stuart Soffer points out that Arkansas Democrats are functioning below the ethical standards of your average third-world nation:
"While the Kyrgyz Republic was able to have transparency on the other side of the globe in a third world country, there are still some here in Arkansas who just don’t get it. For example, in Stone County Election Commission Chairwomen Betty Allred (who had a hand in the sheriff’s race tie fiasco that cost that county $25,000) is doing her best to preclude Republican poll workers from being appointed at each polling site as permitted by Arkansas Voting Law. Perhaps OSCE should dispatch election observers to Stone County to ensure a fair and honest election there."Attorney and GOP consultant Soffer further advises, “We have also drafted a State Board of Election Commissioners ethics complaint against you, and a request for Stone County Prosecuting Attorney assistance because of your denying Commissioner Humphrey his right to designate minority party poll workers as provided for under Arkansas Voting Law. Additionally, because this is a federal election, we will ask the U.S. Attorney for Eastern Arkansas to investigate your actions as well.”

Normally, a small town story concerning a race for the office of county sheriff is not of national interest. However, the systemic corruption demonstrated in Stone County, Arkansas, is a clear-cut example of heavy-handed Democrat political corruption and thuggery taking place all across the country today.

Democrat commissioner Betty Allred has called an emergency meeting of the Stone County Election Commission for Thursday, October 21, 2010, courthouse square, at 6:00 pm and is still refusing to remove Lance Bonds’ name from the ballot even though Bonds is on the ballot illegally, according to Arkansas law.

Upholding the rule of law will mean that the state DNC will not have a candidate for Stone County sheriff on the November ballot. Keeping Lance Bonds on the ballot will mean that DNC politics trumps the rule of law, an unconstitutional concept we have watched play out across the country for almost two years now under unchecked Democrat control of both federal and state governments. . . .

To stop the political corruption, we must confront that corruption. To get our country back, we must take it back one county at a time, one legitimate election at a time! . . . [Full Story]

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