Guilford County Board of Elections Director George Gilbert is still trying to figure out what to do about fraudulent soil and water supervisor “Kirk Perkins”:
Gilbert said Perkins had found “a hole” in the system. While election law had many protections against voter fraud, it had virtually none against candidate fraud. According to Gilbert, election officials cannot recall an instance of anything like this happening before.
In its first action on the matter, the Board of Elections will send a letter to Newell/Perkins at his last recorded address. None of the board members, including Gilbert, seem to have much faith that the letter will reach him, much less that he will appear before the board – because the address they have on file is one of a commercial building currently under renovation.
Note that the board is interested in speaking with Perkins’ former landlord David Crawford, whom they suspect might have conspired with Perkins to commit election fraud.
Considering the circumstances, I’ll go out on a limb and assume this is the same David Crawford who ran for Guilford County Board of Education but —-thank goodness — lost in the May primary. Crawford doesn’t doesn’t appear to be a very stable individual himself, as the Rhino’s John Hammer noticed at the time:
Crawford has some huge problems. He has left me messages where he has repeated himself three times in one sentence and then called back two minutes later to leave me the same message again, and then called back a third time to say the same thing. He doesn’t make any sense when he speaks.
….The bottom line is that this is an extremely unstable individual and it would not serve any good purpose to elect him to the school board or any other office…
As for election law’s lack of protections against candidate fraud, I think that’s been obvious for some time now…
