Skeptics Urge Bevin To Show Proof Of Fraud Claims, Warning Of Corrosive Effects
Elections specialists worry that politicians' scurrilous claims about vote fraud — when it seldom has a decisive effect on outcomes — erodes confidence in democracy.
Trailing in the vote tally for Kentucky's governorship by about 5,000 votes, incumbent Gov. Matt Bevin decided last week to play what's becoming a familiar card: He questioned the election's legitimacy.
"What we know is that there really are a number of significant irregularities," Bevin said Wednesday in front of the governor's mansion, "the specifics of which we're in the process of getting affidavits [about] â and other information that will help us to get
