Nursing Home Voter Fraud

The Mobile Press-Register reports this morning that a former candidate for the Alabama House of Representatives have been arrested for alleged voter fraud:

Darren Lee Flott, a one-time candidate for Alabama House District 98, and Angie Corine Green, an activities director for a nursing home, were both arrested and charged with voter fraud Thursday, Mobile County District Attorney John Tyson Jr. announced.

The pair exploited a host of nursing-home patients, Tyson alleged in a news conference held in his offices at Mobile Government Plaza.

Those taken advantage of were elderly and infirm men and women, who, at the time the ballots were cast in their names, were either "comatose" or "otherwise unable to communicate" their voting preferences, Tyson said.

Allegations such as these are not new in Alabama. However, it's not often that charges get filed and suspects get prosecuted.

 

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