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Republican Poll Watchers Removed from Indiana Polling Site
The Indianapolis Star has the play by play:
The removal of two Republican election workers from a Warren Township polling site - for using improper methods to challenge voters' rights to cast a ballot - has prompted local Republican Party leaders to issue a statement of regret. The two officials - an official challenger and a clerk - were removed by unanimous vote of the Marion County Election Board.The officials were reportedly challenging voters with information obtained through party affiliation reports, which is not one of the accepted challenges such as a person's address, age or lack of ID.
"We were disappointed to hear of the incident regarding these two workers. The Marion County Republican Party was not aware of these alleged activities, nor did the Party instruct any worker to engage in such behavior," Marion County Republican Party Chairman Tom John said in a statement issued at 2 p.m.
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Josh
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Damn Black Panthers are everywhere!
November 4, 2008 5:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
You don't really want to compare men dressed in military garb holding billy clubs with a couple of people with a list of names do you?
This is the real problem with liberal thought. You are blinded by your ideology to the point of accepting a substitution of brute force over the rule of law. There is no moral comparison between the threat of physical violence and someone cheating without the threat.
If someone does something wrong they SHOULD be disciplined (just as these two apparently were). This is not evidence of the vast right wing conspiracy, it is evidence that there is none and that the rule of law is working.
November 4, 2008 6:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
And this is the problem with wingnut thought (or lack thereof). You take a sketchy story and run with it without knowing the facts. The black dude with the billy club was in front of a polling place in an all black part of Philadelphia. Who was he intimidating - McCain voters? Even Faux News figured this out hours ago.
November 4, 2008 6:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
Whereas the real problem with "conservative thought" is that they're a contradiction in terms.
November 4, 2008 6:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
I would bet that Faux News will NOT report on this!!
November 4, 2008 5:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
Can you people not see the evil hand of ACORN in this?
November 4, 2008 5:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
This is the same county that the Supreme Court ruled on Indiana's bogus voter ID law, saying no injury had taken place.
Need an injury now, Scotus?
November 4, 2008 6:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
I suspect those two billy club jerks were Republicans in disguise to give the thugs a talking point!
November 4, 2008 7:17 PM | Reply | Permalink