Earle alderman defends himself against criminal charges
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
An Earle alderman says F-B-I agents
investigating reports of voting problems created charges out of
general confusion.
Forty-five-year-old Lee Johnson is accused of tampering with ballots in the 2002 elections. He took the stand in his own defense yesterday, saying the F-B-I investigators scared Earle residents.
Johnson denied ever tampering with absentee ballots that he or others were authorized to transport to polling places on behalf of voters in the ward he`s represented since 1992.
Earlier, the testimony of a witness who couldn`t remember if she changed her ballot prompted the judge in the case to throw out three of six counts against Johnson.
The federal trial is continuing in Little Rock.
