Posted by stateofnatchez (anonymous) on September 25, 2009 at 12:40 a.m. (Suggest removal)

True dat!

Nonetheless, quite interesting the angle that the ND is leaning on this one...

Posted by thetinman (Keith Reynolds) on September 25, 2009 at 4:57 a.m. (Suggest removal)

What is the big deal about showing some type of proof of who you are when you vote. To me, it can cut down on a lot of voter fraud.
If you drive a car, if you don't have a license, you could stand a chance on going to jail. Don't give me the argument, not everyone can afford a card. No pun, but I am not buying it!!!

GOD Bless the World.

JESUS CHRIST is coming soon

Posted by chuckydaone (anonymous) on September 25, 2009 at 8:07 a.m. (Suggest removal)

Maybe I'm missing something. Regardless of where you stand on voter ID, I fail to see how voter ID would have prevented the offense alleged in this case. A clerk is being accused of hand delivering absentee ballots and assisting the voters. Voter ID won't prevent that. Prosecution, conviction of the guilty, and appropriate punishment might. If you favor voter ID, wonderful. I would'nt suggest this case be the "load wall" of your argument.

Posted by yesindeed1980 (anonymous) on September 25, 2009 at 8:29 a.m. (Suggest removal)

For the Natchez democrat editorial board to find a person guilty before a person goes to trial sounds like the Republican editorial board to me. And yes we will be there in big numbers Monday with our pens but only to sign a petition against the District Attorney and the Attorney General office for targeting one group. Make sure the Natchez democrat editorial board be there to see whats in store for the lies you write in your paper. Besides ask your reporter about the testimony given in the last trial that the ballots were mailed from the clerks office. Are you sure that the Editor from the Woodville Republican didn't write this story?

Posted by 2great4myself (anonymous) on September 25, 2009 at 8:33 a.m. (Suggest removal)

This is really sad for the Natchez Democrat Editoral Board to print an article like this. You need to start reporting all of the facts instead of a one sided story misleading people. I don't think that there is anything wrong with showing a photo ID, but that will not solve all of the corruption happening in elections. Natchez Democrat report the facts and stop misleading people. As your reporter Vershal Hogan sat through the entire trial with the whites and only reported their opinion. That is why your paper is so small because you all are so small minded. On Monday the only paper I will have in my hand is a petition for people to sign to send to the United States Justice Department and Congressman Bennie Thompson to investigate the Mississippi Attorney Generals office and the District Attorney for investigating one party.

Posted by tiredoflosers (anonymous) on September 25, 2009 at 8:43 a.m.

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Posted by OldGrandDad (anonymous) on September 25, 2009 at 8:52 a.m. (Suggest removal)

Thank you DEB. I think it is now obvious what kind of mentalities have been stealing our elections.

Posted by bee (anonymous) on September 25, 2009 at 9:33 a.m. (Suggest removal)

A picture i.d. will not stop voter fraud. We in Concordia Parish have to show a picture i.d. and we have a sheriff that has been beaten twice in elections, and he still serves as sheriff. We have had people vote in our elections that do not live even in the state of Louisiana, much less in our parish. Voter fraud will stop when enought people are prosecuted in a severe manner that makes them think---HEY I BETTER NOT DO THIS OR I WILL GO TO JAIL.

Posted by OldGrandDad (anonymous) on September 25, 2009 at 9:45 a.m. (Suggest removal)

bee, if the law doesn't crack down on voter fraud, then the people will. We simply need the crooks/crooked voters identified. In the 1850's the people (vigilantes) cleaned up San Francisco when the politicians were too crooked to do it. It can be done again. Vigilante justice can work and does work when the crooks are entrenched.

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Posted by southernbelle (anonymous) on September 25, 2009 at 12:13 p.m. (Suggest removal)

I'd like to ask the commentors on this site what their solution to voter fraud would be and if it is of a concern to them ?

Posted by jrn59 (anonymous) on September 25, 2009 at 12:50 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Thanks Natchez Democrat for this informative article! This concerns me because it is the county of my residence and I certainly do not see any thing wrong with presenting proper identification prior to voting UNLESS, there is something to hide. Just look at the tons of id that citizens present daily in routine functions. Almost every time a person cashes or writes a check to pay for merchandise, id is asked to be presented. I have no probs. with this; however, it will never pass in in our corrupt state and corrupt county of Wilkinson.
Geaux Tigers, LSU and Centreville..

Posted by DrunkenMonkey (anonymous) on September 25, 2009 at 1:59 p.m. (Suggest removal)

yesindeed1980 — The following story as reported by Mr. Koob quotes the two sisters who Hollins allegedly helped vote illegally as saying she delivered the ballots:

http://www.natchezdemocrat.com/news/2008...

Posted by Crakalakin (anonymous) on September 25, 2009 at 3:47 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Wasting your time, DrunkenMonkey. Those two have already gotten the other thread on the trial closed. You can't argue facts and reason with blind hatred.

Posted by OldGrandDad (anonymous) on September 26, 2009 at 6:39 a.m. (Suggest removal)

southernbelle, we could cut voter fraud drastically if we were to hang people that were convicted of it. But I don't expect that to happen. Voter ID is the next best thing. Honest folks hired/elected in the Courthouse is another. An end to gerrymandered districts would also help. Just some ideas......