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I'm at a poll monitor training session in Pennsylvania. (Original Post) onehandle Oct 2012 OP
I'd say every minority needs to go to the polls using a cane. One that would be a suitable club brewens Oct 2012 #1
And one more item longeyemom Oct 2012 #2
You can remind troublemaker teabaggers of these state-level crimes meow2u3 Oct 2012 #3
They'll just show me a thumbs up. onehandle Oct 2012 #4

brewens

(13,622 posts)
1. I'd say every minority needs to go to the polls using a cane. One that would be a suitable club
Sat Oct 27, 2012, 10:16 AM
Oct 2012

if anyone gets in their way!

longeyemom

(22 posts)
2. And one more item
Sat Oct 27, 2012, 10:22 AM
Oct 2012

A laminated copy of all the phone #s for the FBI department that investigates the Federal Crime of voter intimidation!

meow2u3

(24,774 posts)
3. You can remind troublemaker teabaggers of these state-level crimes
Sat Oct 27, 2012, 10:30 AM
Oct 2012
http://weblinks.westlaw.com/result/default.aspx?cite=UUID%28NEA47A79034-3011DA8A989-F4EECDB8638%29&db=1000262&findtype=VQ&fn=_top&pbc=DA010192&rlt=CLID_FQRLT94650112692710&rp=%2FSearch%2Fdefault.wl&rs=WEBL12.10&service=Find&spa=pac-1000&sr=TC&vr=2.0
3528. Persons interfering in other districts


Any person who shall on the day of any primary or election visit any polling place at which he is not entitled to vote and at which he is not entitled to be present under any provision of this act, and shall use any intimidation or violence for the purpose of preventing any election officer from performing the duties required of him by this act, or for the purpose of preventing any qualified elector from exercising his right to vote or from exercising his right to challenge any person offering to vote, or for the purpose of influencing the vote of any elector, he shall be guilty of a felony of the third degree, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be sentenced to pay a fine not exceeding fifteen thousand ($15,000) dollars, or to undergo an imprisonment of not more than seven (7) years, or both, in the discretion of the court.


http://weblinks.westlaw.com/result/default.aspx?cite=UUID%28NE8B520B034-3011DA8A989-F4EECDB8638%29&db=1000262&findtype=VQ&fn=_top&pbc=DA010192&rlt=CLID_FQRLT24337282892710&rp=%2FSearch%2Fdefault.wl&rs=WEBL12.10&service=Find&spa=pac-1000&sr=TC&vr=2.0
3547. Prohibiting duress and intimidation of voters and interference with the free exercise of the elective franchise
Any person or corporation who, directly or indirectly--(a) uses or threatens to use any force, violence or restraint, or inflicts or threatens to inflict any injury, damage, harm or loss, or in any other manner practices intimidation or coercion upon or against any person, in order to induce or compel such person to vote or refrain from voting at any election, or to vote or refrain from voting for or against any particular person, or for or against any question submitted to voters at such election, or to place or cause to be placed or refrain from placing or causing to be placed his name upon a register of voters, or on account of such person having voted or refrained from voting at such election, or having voted or refrained from voting for or against any particular person or persons or for or against any question submitted to voters at such election, or having registered or refrained from registering as a voter; or (b) by abduction, duress or coercion, or any forcible or fraudulent device or contrivance, whatever, impedes, prevents, or otherwise interferes with the free exercise of the elective franchise by any voter, or compels, induces, or prevails upon any voter to give or refrain from giving his vote for or against any particular person at any election; or (c) being an employer, pays his employes the salary or wages due in “pay envelopes” upon which or in which there is written or printed any political motto, device, statement or argument containing threats, express or implied, intended or calculated to influence the political opinions or actions of such employes, or within ninety days of any election or primary puts or otherwise exhibits in the establishment or place where his employes are engaged in labor, any handbill or placard containing any threat, notice, or information that if any particular ticket or candidate is elected or defeated work in his place or establishment will cease, in whole or in part, his establishment be closed up, or the wages of his employes reduced, or other threats, express or implied, intended or calculated to influence the political opinions or actions of his employes, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor of the second degree. Any person or corporation, convicted of a violation of any of the provisions of this section, shall be sentenced to pay a fine not exceeding five thousand ($5,000) dollars, or such person or the officers, directors or agents of such corporation responsible for the violation of this section, shall be sentenced to undergo an imprisonment of not more than two (2) years, or both, in the discretion of the court.


http://weblinks.westlaw.com/result/default.aspx?cite=UUID%28NEB40386034-3011DA8A989-F4EECDB8638%29&db=1000262&findtype=VQ&fn=_top&pbc=DA010192&rlt=CLID_FQRLT38955492992710&rp=%2FSearch%2Fdefault.wl&rs=WEBL12.10&service=Find&spa=pac-1000&sr=TC&vr=2.0
3552. Persons convicted of violating act to be disfranchised for four years
Any person convicted of the willful violation of any provision of this act shall, in addition to any of the penalties herein provided for, be deprived of the right of suffrage absolutely for a term of four years from the date of his conviction, and it shall be the duty of the proper registration commission to cause one of its members at the request of the trial judge to produce in court at the time of sentence the district register containing the registration card of such convicted person, which registration card shall thereupon be forthwith cancelled in open court in the presence of the convicted person by a member of the registration commission, who shall promptly also cancel the registration card of such convicted person in the general register.
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