A voter fraud trial in Hale County (AL) has begun involving the former Circuit Clerk of Court.  The Tuscaloosa News has more.

“Gay Nell Singleton was arrested in 2008 and faces 13 felony charges, including accusations of forging absentee ballots, stemming from a voter fraud investigation led by the state Attorney General’s office. She was freed on $13,000 bail and has pleaded not guilty.

Prosecutors say she committed the voter fraud offenses during her term as Hale County Circuit Clerk from January 2001 to December 2007.”

I have previously written about Hale County Alabama and electoral trickery taking place there for Pajamas Media.  Some attorneys at the DOJ were willing to investigate and monitor elections in Hale County, while others were hostile to doing so because the wrongdoers were members of a national racial minority group.  I wrote there:

“Perry wasn’t the only place in Alabama this racially motivated rigging of elections occurred. Hale County was also victimized. The Department’s opponents of race-neutral enforcement of the civil rights laws were particularly obstructionist in Hale. But some courageous lawyers persisted, and sought to ensure federal election observers memorialized all of the racially motivated illegal assistance and vote denial.”

The defendant in the trial that started this week was the protagonist which certain DOJ lawyers wanted to give a pass to.  It plainly demonstrates the danger of refusing to enforce the law in a race neutral fashion.