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A troubling election

Sunday, July 20, 2008Huntsville Times

Few people voted Tuesday, and more fraud allegations arise

Maybe the best thing that can be said about Tuesday's state and local primary runoffs is that they are over. True, the two major parties have chosen their candidates for the November elections, but major questions hang over the process, questions that go to the core of both the democratic system and a citizen's duty to take part in it.

Here's what we're talking about:

Statewide, the total voter turnout in both parties was a pathetic 4 to 5 percent. In Madison County, a community that prides itself on its civic awareness, we did better - but only 7 percent. Still pathetic, in other words.

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