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Republicans, Democrats Accuse Each Of Voter Irregularities By Elizabeth Caldwell Arkansas News Bureau
LITTLE ROCK — State Republican Party officials said Tuesday that people who helped voters illegally register to vote in Arkansas were paid by the Arkansas Democratic Party.
Ron Oliver, state Democratic Party chairman, said the Republicans are trying to strike back at Democrats because the Democrats complained Monday that Republicans were harassing voters in Jefferson County.
"It's intimidation, it's retaliation. If they want to fight, they've come to the right guy," Oliver said.
Marty Ryall, state Republican Party chairman, called a news conference Tuesday at party headquarters to say that people under investigation for voter registration fraud in South Dakota had also been paid by the Arkansas Democratic Party to register voters.
Michael Cook, Arkansas Democratic Party executive director, said that's not new information.
Cook said when Republicans alleged this year that voter registrations in Arkansas had been forged and that some deceased people's names had shown up on new registrations, the Democratic Party offered full cooperation to law enforcement.
U.S. Attorney Bud Cummins said he could not comment on specific investigations but that his office is "responding to allegations of voter fraud."
Cook said the Democratic Party discovered that a staff member in south Arkansas had hired two teen-agers who took names from a phone book and signed them up to vote. That staff member was fired.
Cook said it is "convenient" that Ryall called a news conference on the matter the day after Republicans reportedly targeted black voters in Pine Bluff who were participating in the opening day of early voting before the Nov. 5 election.
Republican "poll watchers" stopped voters going into the voting place and asked for identification, which is not permitted, Cook said.
Also, the poll watchers tried to intimidate voters by taking photographs of them in line. One poll watcher was escorted away by police, Cook said.
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