More ‘voters’ than live adults

Talk about being bad in math.

Mingo, Lincoln and McDowell counties have more voters on their registration rolls than they do adults actually living in their counties.

Mingo has 108% of voting age cities registered – alive or dead, apparently. Cook County in Illinois isn’t the only one using cemeteries to stack up votes. Lincoln has 107% and McDowell 103%.

When I was a sports editor at the Williamson Daily News in Mingo County, Blind Billy Adair ran the elections like a czar. The Democratic Party gave loans to students who attended Marshall College as education majors.

The loans were not due ever -- unless the Democrats lost in that teacher's districts. Then it was pay up time. That made the teachers the most fervent advocates of the Democratic candidates because the teachers' jobs also were on the line.