Nov 20 2008
Republicans Protest Cumberland County Commissioner Race
The local Republican Party is protesting the results of this month’s Cumberland County commissioner race, arguing that thousands of voters used fictitious or incorrect addresses.
GOP Chairman Ralph Reagan is calling for a new election in the commissioner race. He said a customized database comparing addresses of registered voters with information from by the Postal Service shows thousands of discrepancies.
Among the alleged problems, he said, were voter registrations with streets that don’t exist in Cumberland County or incorrect address numbers. In many cases involving the questionable votes, he said, people moved somewhere else before their ballot was cast.
Votes with fraudulent addresses and registrations where people no longer lived should be thrown out most certainly, but I don’t support the idea of a new election. The issue can be resolved by eliminating the bad ballots. I think Reagan is calling for a new election because he knows it would favor his party without the Obama momentum as a factor.
