Kentucky vote buying trial starts, party affiliation missing from newspaper report

Last year in Kentucky a vote-buying scheme was uncovered. The trial for one of the alleged conspirators, Walter Shrout, Judge Executive for Bath County, started yesterday.

Curiously, or maybe not curiously, there is no mention of party affiliation in this Lexington Herald-Leader account.

As for the party Shrout is a member of, I'll give you a hint: That party won control of Congress in November.

From the Herald-Leader:

Norman Crouch was working at the Town and Country Market in early May when Bath County Judge Executive Walter Shrout stopped by and asked to speak to him into the store's back room.

Shrout handed Crouch an envelope stuffed with cash and asked him to help find voters, Crouch testified yesterday on the first day of Shrout's trial on charges that he conspired to buy votes during the Bath County primary in May. Crouch took the envelope and went to work, he said.

"I started going to the housing projects to find people to vote," Crouch said.

Shrout, who won the primary and general election and is still the county's top elected official, is one of 12 Bath County residents who have been charged in what prosecutors have described as rampant absentee vote-buying in the weeks before the May primary. Shrout has been charged with conspiracy, making a false statement to a federal agent and obstruction of justice.

Despite all the Huffington Post ramblings about Diebold and alleged Republican chicanery at the polls, the truth hurts: When it comes to vote fraud, it's almost always Democrats who are behind it--and the mainstream media knows it, even if they don't report it.

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