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Wow, isn’t that blatantly illegal?  For this to happen, the election officials must be turning a blind eye.

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Unfortunately, the video is blocked for me (damn corporate filters), but I’ll take a guess from the headline.  As an election judge myself, I can tell you that allowing a candidate into the polling area or even within 100 feet of the door is a violation of election law in Texas.  Their campaigners may enter within the 100 foot limit if a) they have no signage, t-shirts, et cetera and b) they have legitimate business (i.e. to complain to me about some perceived violation or they have other business in building and are just passing through to said business).  The only exception to that rule is if the candidate is entering to cast their own ballot.  Otherwise, they and their surrogates must remain outside the 100 foot limit.

Not having seen the video, I can’t offer comment on the actual circumstances, but if Obama is inside the 100 foot limit of a polling place in Indiana and the election judge is allowing it, then I can only hope the one or more voters will file a complaint with the Indiana Secretary of State (assuming that is the office with oversight of elections as it is in Texas).  In Texas, it is a felony as an election official to knowingly violate the law in this regard.

There is a simple explanation: Obama supporters are not literate.

They aren’t intelligent either. “No campaigning” at the polls is an old rule. With Democrats, the rules don’t apply!

Campaigning at the polls is OK.  Campaigning in the polls, not so much.

I was under the impression that was illegal?

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As long as any one campaigning, including the candidate, remains outside the 100 foot limit, then they can do anything they want from an election judge’s perspective.  Obviously, if they are intimidating or harassing voters, even outside of the 100 foot limit, they are violating the law, but just simply standing outside the polling place, handing out push cards or holding signs is not illegal.  Distasteful maybe, but not illegal.

I usually get at least one or two complaints each election about it too. All I can tell people who complain to me is that as long as they are outside my 100 foot marker then there is nothing I can do.  If the person sees a campaigner doing something else that is illegal (e.g. harassing or intimidating voters or violating some city ordinance about sign placement) then I always suggest to them that they should call the police.  No one ever has and I haven’t had to have any one arrested in my polling place ever, though I have had to send some people away to change shirts or had them throw away or hide campaign literature that they are keeping out in plain sight.

How low can they go?

I worked at a voting site in ‘06 and I am pretty sure that is against voting and campaigning laws.

A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency, or simply to swell its numbers.

I worked at a voting site in ‘06 and I am pretty sure that is against voting and campaigning laws.

I can’t imagine a democrate breaking a campaign law.

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OK, I’ve finally been able to watch the video.  If that is in a polling place (and the video is not completely conclusive on that point) then making the video was illegal as well.  Recording devices are not allowed to be used in the polling place.

What is the penalty for breaking that law?

THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN –“Blacks” have proven to be more loyal than “Whites”, as they voted 95% for an African American president.  White people who voted for Hillary were asked as they left the polls; “Did you not vote for Obama because he was Black?  An interesting question in light of the fact that they did not ask the alternate question to Blacks who voted for Obama; “Did you not vote for Hillary because she was white?” Somehow the implication is that white people who split their vote between Obama and Hillary might be more inclined to being biased or prejudiced than Black people who voted as a solid block for a Black man.

If Obama did become president, would there be a coming together of the races or would there be more divisiveness.  Obama, whose father was African and his mother white considers himself “black”.  Obama believes in “Affirmative Action”, the favoring of Blacks for jobs and other forms of preferential representation, thereby discriminating against white people and their families. 

Obama would likely use the presidential bully pulpit to advocate for “reparations”, a concept whereas white society must be punished and pay a penalty as whipping boys or scapegoats for those whites who’ve had slaves in the past.  The fact that slavery occurred hundreds of years ago and that the ancestors of many if not most white people here in this country today were not here way back then when slavery existed seems to be irrelevant. 

As Black people have been his most ardent supporter, it is likely he will consider them his main constituency and will look to their specific needs and desires.

Have you noticed the apparent need to have blacks represented in each and every political discussion and the tendency to ask those blacks questions about Obama, as if being black they might have some special (partisan) insight?

Say it: “President Barak Obama”, how does it sound? How does it feel?  You might have to get used to it.  He’s the most liberal democrat in the senate running against the maverick (not dependably loyal) Republican, John McCain.  Seems like a no win outcome for conservatives. 

The Republican Party continues to exploit the conservatives, as they are proceeding like lambs being led to the eventual slaughter.  The so-called “moderate” (liberal) Republicans exude their smugness as they say; “They’ll (the conservatives) have no choice but to vote for McCain as they will not vote for Obama or Hillary”.  Do you wonder why people like Ann Coulter in their indignation and contempt say they “will work for Hillary”? Think about our future with four years of Obama, Hillary, or McCain in the meantime we sit idly by waiting for this catastrophe to happen.

Nick Fortune

Zsa Zsa,

There is no specific penalty for using a recording device* or many of the other prohibited activities, except that if the election judge catches you and asks you to stop or leave, you can be held in contempt for not following the judge’s orders (see subsection C at the link).  If the judge knowingly allows misconduct within their polling place, they are criminally liable.

*Again, I can only speak for Texas law.