Alabama: candidate arrested for absentee voter fraud
The Mobile Press Register reports: 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. ...
The charges stem from a July 2006 Democratic runoff election, in which Flott was first announced the winner of the Prichard area House seat.
But that was voided after the results were protested by now-sitting Rep. James Gordon. -- Former candidate faces charges of voter fraud- al.com