Private Eye Raises Ire of Voters in Southeast

On Wednesday night, Geoffrey Reinwald was preparing to go to a dinner meeting when he heard a knock at the door.

A "big guy," he described, flashed an ID card and said he was a private investigator hired by Michael Rights, a candidate for Southeast supervisor. The man, Reinwald continued, proceeded to ask him whether he was out of town on Election Day and when he returned. Reinwald said he was in Mexico - a vacation he had planned with his wife back in May - from Nov. 3 to 10. After asking Reinwald whether his wife, who also voted absentee, was with him in Mexico - a foolish question by his account - the investigator walked away, he recalled.