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P.I. Firm Questions Council Votes

Item: Votes questioned: Private eye firm finds several votes in November 2009 Coeur d'Alene election came from people who lived elsewhere/Tom Hasslinger, Coeur d'Alene Press

More Info: Nancy E. White voted in the Nov. 3, 2009, Coeur d'Alene general election. The problem is, according to a Hayden private eye firm, White's a Kootenai County resident who used a false Coeur d'Alene address to cast her ballot. Confidential Investigations, the firm hired by attorney Starr Kelso to dig into finding inadmissible ballots cast in the city election, said it has pinpointed several questionable votes such as White's that could be thrown out. "You see stuff like that and you go, 'time out,'" said Phil Thompson, Confidential Investigations vice president.

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D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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