Other local election stories

This item highlights three investigative journalism stories about local election issues including political fundraising, absentee ballot fraud, and forged petition signatures from newspapers in Buffalo, Indiana, and New York.

Rose Ciotta of the Buffalo News (Buffalo, N.Y.) examined political fundraising for a 1995 county executive race. Story # 12358.

In 1994, the Times (Munster, Ind.) investigated absentee ballot vote fraud in the spring primary election. Story # 10944.

"GOP-petition signatures questioned," by Greg Moran of the Post-Star (Glens Falls, N.Y.), Aug. 1987, found forged signatures on the petitions to get local GOP candidates on the ballot. Story # 5119.

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