Fortunately this didn’t happen in Florida, or we’d never hear the end of it, and thankfully no dangling chads were involved, but once again, we have proof of election tampering.

Randy Wooten lost his bid for Mayor of Waldenburg, Arkansas in this past election and he lost by a very large margin. The fact that the race wasn’t even close might make you wonder how allegations of tampering could be valid, but the fact that he got ZERO votes — even though he voted for himself — does make things smell a bit fishy.

Wooten’s wife, Roxanne had gone to City Hall on Wednesday and reported the results to her husband. “She saw my name with zero votes by it. She came home and asked me if I had voted for myself or not. I told her I did,” said Wooten, owner of a local bar.

However, the official results showed the incumbent, William H. Wood with 18 votes, challenger Ronnie Chatman with 18 votes, and Wooten with zero.

Oh, did I forget to mention that the town only has 80 people?

A November 28 runoff is scheduled to decide the race, since there was a tie, but no announcement has been made concerning Wooten’s claim.

It would seem that getting a court order to do an official recount to find that Wooten did indeed get 1 vote would be a waste of time and since he owns a bar, I think there’s a good chance he pushed the wrong button, but there is one thing I’m wondering though. Shouldn’t he have gotten at least 2 votes, or did his wife vote for one of the other guys?

Source: Associated Press

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