Saturday, November 11, 2006
Move over Saline and St. Francis Counties!
There is some real competition developing for the title of corruption capitol of Arkansas. Today's Morning News of Northwest Arkansas runs a horrifying story about voting miscounts in Tuesday's election.
Now, we get a better picture of how Republicans exercise total control of northwest Arkansas.
A close analysis of Thursday's results show in two races, more people voted in a mayoral race than live in the town, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's July 2005 estimates. In Gateway, a town of 122 people, 199 votes were cast in an uncontested mayoral race. In the Pea Ridge, 3,997 votes were cast in a contested mayor'shttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gif race for the city of 3,344 people.
Now, we get a better picture of how Republicans exercise total control of northwest Arkansas.
