HALTER COMPLAINS PERSONS WERE BLOCKED FROM VOTING IN GARLAND COUNTY ARKANSAS.

Arkansas Lt. Gov. Bill Halter who is challenging Sen. Blanche Lincoln in Tuesday's Democratic primary runoff has a beef with state election officials.

The Halter campaign complained that Garland County – the county seat is Hot Springs, and it’s one of Halter’s strongholds in the primary — had opened only two polling stations to serve several thousand voters, creating long lines and parking woes at points during the day.

Natasha Naragon, a spokeswoman for the Arkansas Secretary of State, said Garland County election officials failed to notify voters of the reduced number of polling stations, as required by state law. Though a local official told the Arkansas press that he had made the decision to save money, Naragon said the state bears all costs for primary and runoff elections.

Garland County did allow early voting at the two polling stations for the week leading up to Tuesday’s runoff, as did counties across the state.This was a dirty trick and should be protested with in the courts. If people are not allowed to vote , then it is a fixed election.

NEWSPAPER DID NOT ACKNOWLEDGE BARAK OBAMA AS PRESIDENT

On November 5th, 2008 ,the Petit Jean Country Headlight News in Morrilton, Arkansas did not print in their weekly edition the winner of the Presidential Election. The headline was "Voters Go For McCain".

The only mention of Barak Obama was that the Obama/Biden ticket received 3,144 votes in Conway County, Arkansas. When their subscribers reacted against it , the next week they put an article and picture in a small corner of the first page.

Arkansas is a red state. The paper chose not to let their readers on Wednesday morning know who the president was. This is a disgrace, that they did not recognize Barak Obama because he is black. I now know that the world knows that the Petit Jean Country Headlight News will not acknowledge President-Elect Barak Obama.

And to think I was going to spend the Christmas Holidays in Morrilton doing my genealogical research. Now I will have to make other plans. I will not contribute to their economy. I could spend less money if I went to Hawaii or Mexico.