It looks like it was basically one victim in this particular scam.

There needs to be a transfer of funds between the candidate and the political party. In this case that did not occur.

At this point, the secretary of state has no choice but to try to solicit help from the DOJ to try to get Boone County into compliance.

We have to be very careful about putting up obstacles for people.

Really, Missouri has some pretty strong identification requirements in place as it is.

We had not planned to grandstand on the issue. We simply planned to do the responsible thing with taxpayers' money.