The Philadelphia Republican Party, led by the fine courtroom work of Linda Kerns, challenged the outrageous placement of voter machines next to a Chavez/Saddam Hussein-style Big Head mural of Obama. Kerns won the case today and a judge issued this order:
“Cover the mural in it’s entirety . . .so that the content is invisible.”
Pretty simple stuff, right? Not in Philadelphia, where the law comes second. Here is the response of the Philadelphia election workers to the order of the court.
Remaining is the large Obama quote with the dog-chases-its-tail “We are the Ones We’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” And it looks to me that about 1/3 of the Big Head painting of Obama is covered. Philadelphia preserves its reputation of election day lawlessness.
Arrest, prosecute and punish. And in the unlikely event you find Republicans acting like this do the same thing to them. It’s way past time we restored integrity to the voting process.
Don’t know if it could be done under current law(s), but :: Invalidate all pro-Obama votes from that particular polling location. If it’s not legally feasible yet, this is what needs to become the law. Thereafter, everybody voting at such a place would have a personal stake in seeing to it that every candidate’s “last second special pleading” were removed.
#2 Roger –
Ooh that would be a bad precedent — collective punishment of the populous for the infractions of a person or conspiracy of officials.
It would also be a perverse incentive — want to invalidate the votes of a whole precinct? Just moby up a blatant election-law violation in the polling place.
I agree with James — such activities must be seen to be investigated fairly and violators punished. The process must be fast, non-partisan, public, and with proportionate punishments that will act as a deterrent.