It’s been an ugly day at the polls in Kentucky, at least between supporters of the two highest profile candidates on the ballot today, in what’s become a highly contentious race. Allegations of vote buying and intimidation have been coming out all morning in county after county.
[See our backgrounder right here on today’s race for the GOP U.S. Senatorial nomination between Sec. of State Trey Grayson and Dr. Rand Paul, along with details on the voting systems in use, and the recent history of election fraud by top election officials in the Bluegrass State.]
Nate Hodsen, the campaign manager for Grayson (who is responsible for overseeing his own election as the state’s chief election official) released a statement to say: “This despicable behavior should not be tolerated. Bullying and intimidation should have no place in our elections. Rand Paul needs to rein in his goon squad and follow the law.”
David Adams, the campaign manager for Paul (the son of TX U.S. House Rep. Ron Paul) responded in kind to call the allegations “ridiculous” and “much ado about nothing,” before going on to blame them on Democrats somehow. “We had a tip over the weekend that some of our volunteer activities have been infiltrated by (national) Democratic operatives planning to cause problems,” he told reporters.
See Janet Patton’s detailed coverage at the Lexington Herald-Leader for much more on the problems being reported — for now, mostly complaints about Paul volunteers, being publicized by Grayson’s people (both his campaign staff and SoS staff.)
It sure sounds like Grayson really, really doesn’t like perfectly legitimate exit polling — going so far as to call it ‘a massive voter interrogation scheme’ to the Washington Post. Well, if he had recused himself, perhaps there would have been fewer people interested in creating a paper record.
Meanwhile, it is the staffers of Rand Paul’s opponent saying Rand Paul’s volunteers conducting exit polls are somehow outside the pale.
I wonder what the motive for that is?
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