I know that this story isn't true, but with election time coming up, I think it is appropriate.

The story goes that the State moved in on the Carter organization in Monroe County and made them purge the voter lists. It knocked them for a loop, the story says, but Tim Lee Carter said they could rebuild the list quickly, and volunteered himself and Joe Pettit, the Tompkinsville police chief (and a former Lindsey Wilson man and a great one) to get it back together.

The two went to the Old Mulkey Meeting House Cemetery to copy down names from the tombstones to make up a new list of voters, the story says. After a while, Chief Pettit let out a holler. "Good heavens, Dr. Carter," Chief Pettit is said to have exclaimed, "I think I've found a name long enough to make us two voters." At which point Dr. Carter grew very serious, and this is why he is a great man. "Now look here, Joe Pettit," Dr. Carter is supposed to have scolded, "if we are going to do this job, we are going to do it honestly. You just make up one name from that one. I won't put up with any monkeyshines."