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In 1958, Pollard exposed a voter corruption case in Bald Knob, a small city near Searcy. Election workers cast "absentee ballots" for some thirty pipeline construction workers and their spouses. However, the workers were outside of Arkansas at the time of the election, which included a [[prohibition]] measure on the ballot. They did not cast absentee votes, according to their affidavits, which were presented by Pollard to the White County prosecutor, who declined to take action until after the [[statute of limitations]] had expired, when the charges were moot.<ref name=statement/>
In 1958, Pollard exposed a voter corruption case in Bald Knob, a small city near Searcy. Election workers cast "absentee ballots" for some thirty pipeline construction workers and their spouses. However, the workers were outside of Arkansas at the time of the election, which included a [[prohibition]] measure on the ballot. They did not cast absentee votes, according to their affidavits, which were presented by Pollard to the White County prosecutor, who declined to take action until after the [[statute of limitations]] had expired, when the charges were moot.<ref name=statement/>
In 1954, as a Democrat, Pollard had supported the Republican [[governor|gubernatorial]] nominee [[Pratt Remmel]], then the [[mayor]] of [[Little Rock]]. Six years later, he supported as a Republican [[Henry M. Britt]] of Hot Springs for governor. Britt was later a judge in Garland County.<ref name=statement/>
In 1954, as a Democrat, Pollard had supported the Republican [[governor|gubernatorial]] nominee [[Pratt Remmel]], then the [[mayor]] of [[Little Rock]]. Six years later, he supported as a Republican [[Henry M. Britt]] of [[Hot Springs, Arkansas|Hot Springs]] for governor. Britt was later a judge in Garland County.<ref name=statement/>
===Relations with Orval Faubus===
===Relations with Orval Faubus===
Pollard vacated the chairmanship in December 1970, and the state executive committee chose [[Charles T. Bernard]], then a businessman engaged in dry cleaning from the small city of Earle in Crittenden County in eastern Arkansas. Bernard had been the unsuccessful Republican candidate in 1968 against veteran Democratic [[U.S. Senator]] [[J. William Fulbright]]. When Rockefeller died in 1973, Pollard followed as Republican national committeeman, a post that Rockefeller had first filled in 1961, after the retirement of party veteran [[Wallace Townsend]]. Pollard was national committeeman until 1976, when U.S. Representative Hammerschmidt assumed the position while remaining a member of Congress. Coincidentally, Pollard died only three weeks prior to the passing of Hammerschmidt on April 1, 2015.
Pollard vacated the chairmanship in December 1970, and the state executive committee chose [[Charles T. Bernard]], then a businessman engaged in dry cleaning from the small city of Earle in Crittenden County in eastern Arkansas. Bernard had been the unsuccessful Republican candidate in 1968 against veteran Democratic [[U.S. Senator]] [[J. William Fulbright]]. When Rockefeller died in 1973, Pollard followed as Republican national committeeman, a post that Rockefeller had first filled in 1961, after the retirement of party veteran [[Wallace Townsend]]. Pollard was national committeeman until 1976, when U.S. Representative Hammerschmidt assumed the position while remaining a member of Congress. Coincidentally, Pollard died only three weeks prior to the passing of Hammerschmidt on April 1, 2015.
===Campaign manager for Ken Coon, 1974===
===Campaign manager for Ken Coon, 1974===