Check out this story in the WSJ Opinion Journal:
The progressive citizens of Wisconsin have reason to worry that Chicago-style vote-buying is creeping north from Illinois. The NBC affiliate in Milwaukee has just filmed Democratic campaign workers handing out small amounts of money and free food to residents at a home for the mentally ill in Kenosha after which the patients were shepherded into a separate room and given absentee ballots. One of the Democratic Party workers fled when she saw the NBC camera. The local district attorney is investigating.
Robert Jambois, the Kenosha County District Attorney, says the case is a headache for him because he has endorsed Jim Doyle, the Democratic candidate for governor, and because the Democratic worker who fled the scene was an intern in his own office. He will decide later if he needs to recuse himself.
Bribing developmentally disabled folks to vote democratic.
Buying cigarettes for the homeless to get them to vote democratic.
Scamming votes in the old folks home.
Are the Democrats that desperate? Shouldn't they be able to win elections based on the merits of their platform?
I guess I'm just too naive.
Posted by Rich at October 29, 2002 11:11 AM