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Senator Hillary Clinton

Monday, August 02, 2004

Wrestling for votes

How do Republicans ensure a fair election in Tennesee? By manhandling the female Election Registrar:
Polk County Sheriff's officers have arrested two county election commissioners and the county Republican Party chairman in a ballot box scuffle.

Election Registrar Sula Jenkins says commissioners Bill Frady and Steve Gaddis "manhandled" her. Jenkins is a Democrat, Frady and Gaddis are Republicans.

The registrar says the commissioners wrested a ballot box from her grasp Saturday as early voting ended for the state primaries and snapped an extra padlock on it.

She says GOP Chairman Ronnie O'Neal tried to interfere with a clerk who was calling 911 about the disturbance.

Deputies charged Frady and Gaddis with assault and arrested O'Neal on disorderly conduct and official misconduct.

Rumor is Ronnie O'Neal has since challenged Sula to a steel cage match for the fate of Tennesee's voters. Check pay-per-view listings soon.

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