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Elections Past: Cheap liquor doomed a candidacy By Ed Waggener So far as can be seen, elections in Adair County are squeaky clean today. But just a few decades ago, when vote-buying was "legal" - that is, pretty standard practice on both sides of the political aisle, the currency was generally cash and/or liquor. In larger cities votes were seemingly bought through the issuance of bearer checks used to hire people to transport voters to the polls, technically viewed to be legal. But basically the ethics of honest vote-buying and bearer checks came down to country, no hypocrisy ethics vs. better-than-thou city self-righteousness. Citizens with votes for sale were called the "float vote," with a 1,000-2,000 vote component countywide, depending on the election. (Not to be confused with what some politicians privately called the "idiot vote," which involved an investment of time, not money, but was also in the 1,000-2,000 range.) Heard one time in my 173 year past of a county wide election which was doomed when the candidate made a bad choice of election day liquor. "He (the candidate), sent me out with a load of generic liquor," he said. "Hell, I couldn't even give it away in The City (a term for what was then a economically challenged area of the county)." Of course our candidate lost. Don't know if the anecdote is a fact or not, but it was a good story. - EW This story was posted on 2013-11-14 04:43:51
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