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Small-Town Election, Big-Time Trouble
The stories chronicled election fraud in two small communities. In the first community, one candidate's mother headed up the registrar's office, while in the other community, Gate City, the mayor manipulated the absentee voting system to his advantage, sometimes filling the forms of elderly absentee voters himself.
Tags: election fraud; absentee voting; voter registration; Roanoke; Scott County; Gate City; Willie Mae Kilgore; Charles Dougherty; Jerry Kilgore; Terry Kilgore; State Board of Elections; campaign donations; Republican Party