{
  "id": "2001-marchapril-other-local-election-stories",
  "slug": "2001-marchapril-other-local-election-stories",
  "url": "https://dwillis.github.io/uplink/article/2001-marchapril-other-local-election-stories.html",
  "year": 2001,
  "month": "March/April",
  "monthNum": 3,
  "headline": "Other local election stories",
  "kicker": "",
  "author_name": "",
  "author_title": "",
  "affiliation": "",
  "summary": "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.",
  "keywords": [
    "elections",
    "fraud",
    "fundraising"
  ],
  "topics": [
    "Government & Politics"
  ],
  "technologies": [],
  "full_text": "Other local election stories\n\nRose Ciotta of the Buffalo News (Buffalo, N.Y.) examined political fundraising for a 1995 county executive race. Story # 12358.\n\nIn 1994, the Times (Munster, Ind.) investigated absentee ballot vote fraud in the spring primary election. Story # 10944.\n\n\"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.\n\nCopies of these stories can be ordered from the IRE Resource Center by calling (573) 882-3364. Search the story database at www.ire.org/resourcecenter.",
  "provenance": {
    "extracted_by": "anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6",
    "extracted_at": "2026-07-05",
    "verified": true
  },
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      "slug": "2001-marchapril-floridas-dead-heat",
      "score": 0.21
    },
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      "slug": "1998-april-ire-resource-center-voter-fraud-stories",
      "score": 0.182
    },
    {
      "slug": "2000-october-the-story",
      "score": 0.181
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    {
      "slug": "2004-july-august-readmetxt",
      "score": 0.179
    },
    {
      "slug": "1998-april-voter-fraud",
      "score": 0.175
    }
  ],
  "html_url": "https://dwillis.github.io/uplink/article/2001-marchapril-other-local-election-stories.html",
  "json_url": "https://dwillis.github.io/uplink/article/2001-marchapril-other-local-election-stories.json"
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