Very recommendable! It sometimes takes a peanut farmer and who was the first U.S. President born in a hospital!
Voter fraud or election integrity is a very serious issue for any democracy! If citizens can not trust the election process anymore ...
"... The only reason Carter ended up in office when he did is because he claimed publicly that he had won and went to court to fight to overturn the election. Apparently, that’s considered a criminal act in Georgia today and can get you charged with violating the state’s racketeering law.
Perhaps because of his personal experience, Carter is one of the few leaders in the Democrat Party who has acknowledged that people should be seriously concerned about election fraud, and who took steps to try to address the problem. ...
So, what happened to Carter when he first ran for the Georgia state Senate in Democrats’ primary election of 1962? ...
So, what happened to Carter when he first ran for the Georgia state Senate in Democrats’ primary election of 1962? ...
But Carter and his lawyers doggedly continued their investigation, which resulted in their being followed by “local lieutenants of the organization” and targeted by “threatening phone calls.” They discovered that votes had been cast by individuals who “were dead, in prison, or had long ago moved away and voted in other communities.” Others in whose names ballots had been cast said they hadn’t actually voted.
But the newspapers characterized Carter “as a politically naïve sorehead and a poor loser,” while state Democrat Party officials were “aloof or downright hostile.” The “local judge and district attorney had strong ties in the county” and refused to do anything about the fraud, Wooten writes.
However, Carter wouldn’t give up even though the media, his own political party, and the local justice system were against him.
The future governor and president went to court with a lawyer ... Carter’s lawyer, Charles Kirbo, managed to get a hearing before a judge outside the state Senate district in which Carter was running.
That judge declared Carter the winner because the election in Georgetown was “so thoroughly tainted by vote fraud that there was absolutely no way to determine what had been the voters’ original and genuine intent.” Accordingly, the judge said, the election would be decided by the votes cast elsewhere in the Senate district. ..."
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