Virginia bogus flyer grounded; police consider charges

[babylonsister]

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/11/03/virginia-bogus-flyer-grounded-police-consider-charges/

Virginia bogus flyer grounded; police consider charges
Posted: 01:20 PM ET

From Dan Lothian and Beth Elliott


A bogus flyer telling Democrats to vote the day after Election Day has been discovered.


(CNN) - Virginia State Police may press charges against the person responsible for a bogus flyer in the Hampton Roads, Virginia area that told Democrats to vote on the day after Tuesday's election, according to the state's Board of Elections.

"It was a joke that got out of control on the internet," says Virginia Board of Elections Secretary Nancy Rodriguez.

The state's official logos appear on the flyer, which started circulating on October 24. It said Republicans and Independents leaning Republican should vote on November 4 — Election Day — and Democrats and Independents leaning Democratic to vote the following day.

It says the change in voting times is due to "larger than expected voted turnout" and says an "emergency session of the General Assembly has adopted the following emergency regulations to ease the load on local electorial (sic) precincts and ensure a fair electoral process."

Communicating false information to voters is punishable as a class 1 misdemeanor under Virginia election law.

[Danieljay]

1. They MAY press charges? Good God, throw the effing book at em. All of em. n/t

[HowHasItComeToThis]

2. DON'T REFER THIS TO THE DOJ

IT WILL DISAPPEAR

[gratuitous]

3. Just a joke, it got out of control

Heck, no harm no foul, right Nancy Rodriguez? And I suppose if the flyer had been misdirecting Republican voters under the imprint of your office, you'd take the exact same aw-shucks attitude, right?

What a load of bullshit. The Republicans have been yammering about election fraud, and then when it smacks them right in the gooch, it's all just some harmless little prank.

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. Is Nancy Rodriguez Dem or R?

[lifesbeautifulmagic]

5. one thing I hope our new dem congress does, is make it a serious

federal crime to vote suppress in any way or form, with serious prison time included. You want to call the Hispanic community and tell them, they will be arrested if they have a parking ticket and they vote? Hope you have five years to spare, and spend in jail.