At a news conference today Alabama Attorney General Troy King says his effort to investigate possible vote irregularities from the June 3rd 2008 primary election in Perry County is being stymied by the United States Justice Department. King says the CXivil Rights division has refused to prove reports from 8 federal montiors who were in Perry county for the election. King says he was told to file a request for the reports from the monitors through the Freedom of Information Act, as a private citizen would have to do. That according to King shows a lack of cooperation from the federal government in the state's effort to investigate vote fraud in Perry county.

King also announced 3 people have been indicted for vote fraud in Hale county from democratic primaries in 2004 and 2005. 2 are awaiting trial now. That, he says, should send a message to anyone who has committed vote fraud or who is planning to that the state has a zreo tolerence for people trying to steal elections.

One of the issues in Perry county is that more than 11 hundred absentee votes were cast out of just more than 8 thousand registered voters. Secretary of State Beth Chapman says that's more double the absentee ballots cast in Jefferson county, which is the largest county in the state.

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