http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/29/na...9kentucky.html
Where Prosecutors Say Votes Are Sold
By JAMES DAO
Published: August 29, 2004
LONDON, Ky., Aug. 26 - It was not so long ago, historians say, that some voting places in eastern Kentucky were virtual vote-buying bazaars. Brokers bartered half pints of whiskey and $10 bills for votes just outside polling station doors. The cheap ones could be bought for beer. The smart voters always sold twice.
-Rudey