"Widespread abuse" of the absentee balloting system may have helped the Hubbard family build its political dynasty, a lawyer alleges in an explosive letter filed today with the Board of Elections.Attorney Dave Roland, who represents three progressive candidates challenging members of the St. Louis family on Democratic Party primary ballots next month, alleges that past races featuring a Hubbard on the ballot have generated a "quite literally unbelievable" percentage of absentee ballots. He's demanding that the city's Board of Elections step in to monitor absentee balloting in those three races in light of the "extreme irregularities" he's identified.
The letter, hand-delivered to the Board today, lays out Roland's case that absentee ballots comprise far too high a percentage of votes in races involving the family.…