Mitch Kokai, John Locke Foundation director of communications, discusses the implications of an 89-year-old Wake County man’s arrest on voter fraud charges after he cast two ballots in the 2010 election. Kokai offered these comments for an Aug. 18, 2011, report on WTVD (ABC11).
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