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Kentucky: What is 'vote hauling'?

The Cincinnati Post carried this editorial in January 1998: For those unfamiliar with the practice, money - $50 to $100 a day - is paid by campaigns to individuals to ''haul'' voters to the polls. Payment must be made by check and a report must be made. Outside of that there are no other restrictions.

More often than anyone knows or would ever admit, those paid to haul voters actually only hauled themselves or maybe their spouse to the polls to vote. In some cases, people who were paid for vote-hauling in 1996 didn't even own a car or have a driver's license. The reality is ''vote-hauling'' is just legalized voter fraud - the money buys votes.

In some parts of the state, like Eastern Kentucky and in other rural areas, vote hauling is a tradition.

But Republicans note that vote hauling was a major thrust of the Democrats' get-out-the-vote effort in Jefferson County during the 1995 gubernatorial election. That effort in the Louisville area remains under investigation by a grand jury. -- Editorial: Thinly disguised fraud

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May 03, 2005
Kentucky: Senator to be indicted for 'vote hauling'

AP reports: A federal grand jury is expected to indict a Democratic Senate leader from eastern Kentucky for"