What kind of reporting is this?

Edited: It's interesting...this story is making the rounds of various blogs. Conservative blogs are saying, "Yep, cheating Democrats." Democrat blogs (and message boards) are saying - "Republican prosecutor trying to intimidate black folk into not trying to vote. These people were just trying to help voters avoid laws put into place by Republicans to make it more difficult for them to vote."

And yet, both of the beliefs above are based only on the extremely poorly written article below which doesn't explain exactly what these people did! But I'd have to say that the fact that they are in jail rather than released on their own recognizance (my assumption based on the orange jumpsuit photos) means what they did was pretty serious.


Whatever happened to reporters telling the "who, what, when, where and why?"

Below is an transcripton of a news broadcast - 12 people in some town in Georgia were arrested for voter fraud - helping absentee voters vote illegally, somehow.

The party affiliation of these people is not given, but as you can see from the photo, they are all African-American. Law of probability therefore suggests, they are Democrats. But why didn't this news report say what politicians were effected by the fraud? That is the very least that should have been included in the story.

For that matter, why include their photos at all? Was the author not allowed to share political affiliation within the body of the text, so cleverly thought he'd make it clear by sharing the photo of the people involved?

I'm also surprised to see that all these women are wearing orange... i.e., they are actually in jail, wearing prison jumpsuits.

QUITMAN, GA (WALB) - 12 former Brooks County officials were indicted for voter fraud. The suspects are accused of illegally helping people vote by absentee ballot.

State officials launched an investigation after an unusually high number of absentee ballots were cast in the July 2010 primary election. "As a result of their grand jury findings 12 individuals were indicted in that particular matter and we will be trying that case in a court of judicial law instead of a court of public opinion so that will be pending this next year," said District Attorney Joe Mulholland.

The defendants include some workers in the voter registrar's office and some school board members. They are Angela Bryant, April Proctor, Brenda Monds, Debra Denard, Lula Smart, Kechia Harrison, Robert Denard, Sandra Cody, Elizabeth Thomas, Linda Troutman, Latashia Head, and Nancy Denard.

(Fortunately) the only thing I know about getting arrested is what I see on Law and Order, but what they show is that people get their mug shots taken before being put into orange jumpsuits and sent to a holding cell.... so apparently these women weren't released on their own recognizance but are actually in jail.




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