Judge orders partisans to stop asking voters for ID outside Homestead polling place
Source: Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Judge orders partisans to stop asking voters for ID outside Homestead polling place
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
By Adam Brandolph
Published: Tuesday, November 6, 2012, 10:32 a.m.
An Allegheny County judge on Tuesday issued an order to halt electioneering outside a polling location in Homestead.
County officials received a complaint shortly before 10 a.m. Tuesday that Republicans outside a polling location on Maple Street in Homestead were stopping people outside the polls and asking for identification.
The order states: Individuals outside the polls are prohibited from questioning, obstructing, interrogating or asking about any form of identification and/demanding any form of identification from any prospective voter.
Allegheny County Common Pleas Judge Guido A. DeAngelis, one of two judges overseeing Elections Court, issued the order and said such actions by partisans could have a chilling effect on voting.
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reflection
(6,286 posts)Too bad they didn't get a beatdown as well. I've had it with these fascist fucks.
valerief
(53,235 posts)groundloop
(11,519 posts)Violence against these assholes wouldn't help our cause (and IMHO neither does suggesting it). These anti-American bastards simply need to be arrested for interfering with the voting process and spend plenty of time in jail to think about it.
valerief
(53,235 posts)Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)If anything, they'll share their donuts with 'em(or just sneak 'em out, since some of them are probably their fellow boys n' girls in blue on their day off).
ProudProgressiveNow
(6,129 posts)barnabas63
(1,214 posts)Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)RedCloud
(9,230 posts)Let them break rocks and smash faulty voter machines toi bits.
renate
(13,776 posts)Will anything happen to them or do they just get told to cut it out? They are so vile and un-American to bully people into not voting. I wonder whether any Republican outside the South would win any election ever if it weren't for suppression and fraud and intimidation.
liberalmuse
(18,672 posts)They should be asked to leave - and if they don't leave, arrested.
Thank you, Judges!
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)bushisanidiot
(8,064 posts)because if all they do is get their hands slapped, they will drive around the block then come right back
and do it again!
CrispyQ
(36,478 posts)Hypocrites of the highest order.
Thank you Judge DeAngelis.
DMacTX
(301 posts)Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)napi21
(45,806 posts)I'm not just talking about people outside the polling places, but everything!
The people working the polls demnding ID (ESP.Pa.) when a judge has already ruled against it.
The crap being pulled by the Ohio AG.
etc, etc....
I heard there are lots of attorneys working the polls for Obama tody in a numberof di=fferennt states. Why am I still hearing abou this stuff going on?
I was born in Pgh. and lived there for 45 years. There wasn't any of these things being pulloedthen. I'm also sure that if someone woulde have tried it in Homestead, there would hae been fights! /what's happened to the people there?
Beowulf
(761 posts)but if SCOTUS strikes down the Voting Rights Act as many expect, things could get very violent next election.
marew
(1,588 posts)how the heck they could do that legally! What nerve!
Orrex
(63,215 posts)Hardly surprising, but endlessly disgusting.
MicaelS
(8,747 posts)napi21
(45,806 posts)one of those AH's to approach ME! I guarantee we'd be on the front page of the local paper, above the fold, the next morning!
At least ONE of us would be hospitalized.
CoboWowbo
(32 posts)who lives in PA. The workers at his polling place aren't asking for ID, but are telling people they'll need ID for the next election.
He also mentioned there were tons of people at the Obama tent, and very few at the Romney table.
MyNameGoesHere
(7,638 posts)Nothing more. When next election comes around they can publicly inform everyone about any rule changes, but not a polling place.
defacto7
(13,485 posts)Intimidation is not acceptable.
I do have one question though...
Has there been any observation of people actually leaving the line or not voting after being approached by these people? I mean, if some jackass comes up to me in the voting line and comments about my ID, I don't care what they say. I'll either ignore them or make a big fuss in line to let others know about it. I'm not sure if it would make people not vote who are already standing in line.
mainer
(12,022 posts)I wonder how many GOP operatives would be willing to produce their own ID if challenged.
kiranon
(1,727 posts)These are the very people who will run for office or be part of someone's administration down the line and their prior behavior needs to be on the record.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)RantinRavin
(507 posts)In Philadelphia, the Republican Party said dozens of legally credentialed minority voting inspectors were removed from polling places in Philadelphia on Tuesday, reports being looked into by investigators with the District Attorneys office.
State GOP Chairman Rob Gleason said 75 Republican election workers were prohibited from accessing polling places in the heavily Democratic city, prompting the party to seek a court order. The incidents, Gleason said, ranged from judges of elections refusing to seat minority inspectors to reports of Democrats saying No Republicans will be allowed in the polling place.
Tasha Jamerson, a spokeswoman for District Attorney Seth Williams, says the office is investigating a series of complaints regarding such minority voting inspectors. She did not have specifics on what kinds of complaints there were about the minority voting inspectors, but said the office was fielding a higher volume of complaints than normal.
A message left with the states Democratic Party was not immediately returned.
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Patiod
(11,816 posts)Seriously flawed source there - akin to linking to Fox "News" to verify something
Pachamama
(16,887 posts)Perp walk the bastards!!!!
inamatteroftime
(135 posts)sakabatou
(42,152 posts)THis is what they always try to do. If they can't suppress, they'll lose.
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)Part of the method of operation?
Just keep up with the Denial of Service attacks, trying to deny any votes they can?
Time to fire up the Virus Protection against these creeps.
Zambero
(8,964 posts)These people have no absolutely no authority and are placed outside polling locations for intimidation purposes, period. Their demands are an invasion of privacy and they need to receive maximum pushback so that their pretense of (bogus) authority gets deflated for everyone else to witness.
ToxMarz
(2,169 posts)Haywood Brothers
(19 posts)At the Homestead strike, Vanderbilt sent in the Pinkertons to intimidate the strikers.
Things haven't changed much, have they?
happyslug
(14,779 posts)Iman A. Sole
(7 posts)How the right and Fox would lose their minds if a Black Panther asked someone for ID? The BPs can't even open doors at the polls without a right wing freak out.