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Thu May 23, 2019, 05:41 AM May 2019

Election fraud in Fort Worth? Candidate questions ballots; incumbent calls it 'slander'

FORT WORTH -- A candidate for an east Fort Worth council district has questioned the validity of more than 200 absentee ballots, hoping to force a runoff with incumbent Kelly Allen Gray.

Chris Nettles, a justice of the peace clerk who hoped to unseat Gray in May’s election, said his campaign looked at the nearly 550 absentee ballots in the race for District 8 and found discrepancies between the signatures on the applications and the signatures on the ballot. At least 200 should be reviewed and discredited, he said, saying they’re evidence of election fraud.

Gray firmly denies any wrongdoing in the election.

The election was certified last week before Gray was sworn in for another term. She won District 8 with 1,956 votes. Nettles took 1,472 votes while Kevin “KL” Johnson had 243. Only 93 votes kept Nettles from a runoff race with Gray.

Read more: https://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/community/fort-worth/article230693614.html

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