Was Your Parish Party Chairman A Fraud? With the candidate elections taking place, there has been drama and blame placed across every parish, especially towards the Parish Party Chairmen and their responsibility to count and place votes. The criticism has spread throughout the Federalist and Nationalist parties of Cane, Bogafalaya, Mississippi, Atchafalaya, and Pearl parishes. One of the most blamed parishes was Cane and their PPC, Logan O’Callagan. There is an anonymous source stating that “their people didn’t get the right to choose who they wanted to vote for,” blaming Logan O’Callaghan for not doing his job as their PPC. Jordan Rogers from Mississippi was very vocal when criticizing Logan, claiming that “he asked me if I could put all the votes from my parish on him… to which I told him I would not do that… he was not pleased.” Mississippi was not the only parish reprobating Cane, as its own anonymous citizens claimed that everyone “really pushed for block voting”. One more person who vocally disagreed with Cane was Vincent Jaran of Atchafalaya, who claimed that “there was voter fraud…with people next to me arguing with each other… and everyone voting for the Cane person”. When questioned, Cane PPC Logan O’callaghan explained that he “firmly believed in every voice being heard,” and that he isn’t “perfect, people make mistakes, if I didn’t manage to see a vote that was different I’m sorry. I never wanted to make anyone feel like their vote didn’t count”. Noah Castaneda of Cane parish also claimed that “other people of Pearl wanted to cast a vote on our side… and their PPC (Nathan Hill) would unanimously put it towards theirs”. Logan would add to this claim by defending Bogafalaya and questioning Mississippi’s unanimous voter count. Naturally, Pearl’s PPC Nathan Hill was also questioned on the comments made about his role in the election. Nathan admitted to using a single citizen’s votes with discretion but did not tamper with anyone else’s, that “everyone’s guilty of block voting… politics are not all fair.” Nathan’s anonymous peers would respond by saying that “he wasn’t honest, we only got to raise our hands for two elections and after that, it was over and our votes were sold off”. Nathan allegedly said that he “was tired of losing… I wanted to win… your vote doesn’t count, I’m gonna put all twenty-two where they belong.” Nathan’s last message was that Atchafalaya betrayed him and that “they said they would vote for our guy, but when it came to voting, the majority voted for someone else”. Atchafalaya’s PPC, Dylan Underwood revoked this statement by explaining that Nathan would try to get them to trade all of their votes for only eleven of theirs. Dylan stated, “…I made mistakes and did sway people and try to make deals, but did not intentionally change any vote whatsoever. I am not proud of that”. When questioning other members of Atchafalaya, an anonymous source wanted to criticize Ethan Fredrick, Bogafalaya’s PPC, for “being very sloppy with counting votes, and making deals with parishes without asking for his own citizen’s votes”. The anonymous source also mentioned that Sal Christina of Bogalafalaya was very maniacal and would be out of his seat influencing Ethan and others to vote for candidates. Ethan Fredrick was questioned on the allegations placed on him which he chose to disclose publicly. Ethan wished to clarify that Sal did try to “take over at times and that he would get very upset if [Ethan] messed up,” however, Ethan explained that Sal apologized for being too influential at times. There were many instances of PPCs having allegations against them however, there were many times when most of the citizens chose to back up their leaders and said that they all did their job to the best of their extent.
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