This sounds like the Buchanan Co. coon hound incident.

Virginia State Police are investigating allegations of voting fraud during last year's Appalachia town council election, Wise County Commonwealth's Attorney Chad Dotson confirmed Monday.
State police are looking at claims that supporters of an unidentified council candidate offered food, cigarettes and liquor to residents of the Inman Village public housing complex in exchange for letting the supporters fill out their absentee voting ballots, according to a story in Sunday's Roanoke Times.
Voters in the May 2004 election returned incumbent Councilman Ben Cooper to office and chose newcomers Eddie Gollaway and Owen "Andy" Sharrett III for the three open seats on the five-member council.
Cooper, a former mayor and acting town manager, led the polling with 351 votes, followed by Gollaway with 340 and Sharrett with 312.
Falling short were longtime councilman and current Mayor Gary Bush, with 244 votes; incumbent Rick Bowman with 221 votes; and former councilman Debbie Bouton with 212 votes. Also, Ben Surber received 28 votes despite having announced that he dropped out of the race.
The Roanoke Times story reported that of 585 people who voted, 108 cast absentee ballots - an absentee rate of 18 percent, compared with a usual statewide rate of about 5 percent.
The story quotes three Inman Village residents as confirming their absentee ballots were filled out by someone other than themselves. The Roanoke Times did not identify the candidate or the candidate's supporters who allegedly bribed the residents, because so far no charges have been filed in the investigation.
Dotson Monday said the investigation is ongoing, but he hopes to receive a state police report in about two weeks. At that time, he said, he will determine if anything in the report merits the filing of criminal charges.
Dotson declined to discuss details of the investigation, but acknowledged he's heard the Inman Village allegations detailed in the Sunday article.