2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumIF Bill Clinton violated election law, what's the penalty?
Several media outlets are covering Bill Clinton's appearance at a polling place in Massachusetts. IF this is a violation of election law (as most seem to agree it is) what is the penalty?
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/03/01/did-bill-clinton-violate-election-rules-mass/5octlX1d28GwmN3kitiECK/story.html#comments
http://www.masslive.com/politics/index.ssf/2016/03/bill_clintons_foray_into_west.html
marions ghost
(19,841 posts)re-vote in those precincts.
And fine the Clinton campaign.
NowSam
(1,252 posts)But now that Bullhorn Bill = Bush will any Hillarians speak out against it?
TDale313
(7,820 posts)Cause, no.
marions ghost
(19,841 posts)photo credit--The Boston Herald
This photo kinda says it all...
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)good for the photo editor.
marions ghost
(19,841 posts)Yeah this sums up what we'll get with Billary. Tone deaf with a megaphone. Not listening.
They need to hang it up. The country wants, needs and deserves, real tangible change.
PonyUp
(1,680 posts)Dem2
(8,168 posts)I've seen it several times in my brief time at the polls over the years.
Candidates are scolded and then told to move beyond the prescribed distance. That's it.
SamKnause
(13,110 posts)Dem2
(8,168 posts)I'm not even sure how the rules work for family members, but I'll assume that they are the same as for the candidate if they are campaigning. Anyway, I see no reason that the rules should be different based on a person's status. The rules are the rules and they are generally just enforced by poll workers as rarely does a politician not do as they're told. I did see a rather heated argument in '08 but the guy eventually moved away from the entrance before further action was required.
comradebillyboy
(10,175 posts)reformist2
(9,841 posts)dooner
(1,217 posts)There's no real penalty.
revbones
(3,660 posts)Two different legal systems...
Grassy Knoll
(10,118 posts)Hassin Bin Sober
(26,337 posts)Dragonfli
(10,622 posts)The person would have been stopped and warned immediately (before he/she could cause any damage and thus nullifying the accuracy of the results as he did quit intentionally) and fined, after learning he was not even a voter and had no business there other than to campaign illegally and disrupt the path of voters that did have the right to be there, he would have been escorted away from the premises possibly in a police vehicle. .
For all the vote-blocking (disenfranchising of voters he did there and elsewhere) I have no idea what the penalties are, he was a serial election fraud culprit in MA and I do not know the legal price for that, possibly compounded fines and a night in jail awaiting the judge to determine the full amount.
gwheezie
(3,580 posts)Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)This cannot stand!
aspirant
(3,533 posts)Ino
(3,366 posts)Bill made the 1% difference.
Zynx
(21,328 posts)It wasn't winner take all.