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Topic: Teabaggers try to intimidate voters in NY's 23rd

Yesterday teabaggers tried to indimidate and over influence voters in the 23rd district in NY state by shouting at voters and standing closer than the law permits to the polling place. Reportedly police had to be called.
Voters of that district seemed to backlash against this kind of tactic and sent the Democratic candidate (Owens) to Washington.
This marks the first time the voters of this district sent a Democrat to congress since the war between the states.
If Palin and the teabaggers wish to keep doing this kind of demostative rallying then I belive it is wonderful. The people, even of a conservative district want nothing to do with their poison.

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Re: Teabaggers try to intimidate voters in NY's 23rd

It's about time people voted their mind, rather than the party line.

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Re: Teabaggers try to intimidate voters in NY's 23rd

Is there, uh, proof of this?

Like there was of Black Panther members during the 2008 election?

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Re: Teabaggers try to intimidate voters in NY's 23rd

Abraxas wrote:

Is there, uh, proof of this?

Like there was of Black Panther members during the 2008 election?

From the NY Daily News Nov 3rd I don't know that being in the NYDN is proof but here is the report...

Police Called To NY-23 Polling Sites 
By Elizabeth Benjamin

It's getting ugly out there.

I just got off the phone with former state Democratic Chairwoman June O'Neill, who informed me the police had been called to at least two polling sites in St. Lawrence County due to overzealous electioneering (O'Neill called it "voter intimidation") by Doug Hoffman supporters.

"We've gotten reports that people are standing there, covered with Hoffman stickers and yelling anti-choice stuff at voters," said O'Neill, a St. Lawrence native who has been running the party's GOTV effort for Bill Owens in NY-23.

"Apparently, there's some woman claiming to be a commissioner," O'Neill continued. "Commissioner of what, I don't know. She's from Texas, I think, and she won't leave."

"This is not the way we roll in the North Country."


O'Neill also said she had received anecdotal reports of problems at polling sites in Gouverneur, which is Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava's hometown. But she couldn't immediately confirm this.

I called over to the St. Lawrence Board of Elections and got GOP Elections Commissioner Debbie Pahler on the line. She confirmed that the police indeed had been called, but she downplayed the incident, saying it's "a routine procedure here in the county."

Good to see you posting again Brax...welcome back.

Last edited by freethinker (2009-11-25 00:37:08)

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