Voter Fraud in eastern Kentucky is not out of the ordinary, and in fact hundreds of thousands of dollars are being spent to buy votes and hijack the election process.

“These folks go out and hijack the local elections for their own purposes and then they use those jobs to enrich themselves and their confederates. It really is a terrible problem and it has to be stopped,”

“When it comes to vote buying, it’s an everyday thing. … It’s pretty much like jaywalking,”

Voter fraud has a shocking new meaning in eastern Kentucky.

That is where in some cases, major cocaine and marijuana dealers admitted to buying votes to steal elections, and the result is the corruption of American democracy. The government continues to mete out justice in the scandal, as two people convicted in April in a vote-buying case face sentencing this week, and another public official pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiracy.

“We believe that drug money did buy votes,” Kerry B. Harvey, U.S. attorney for the Eastern

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