Police Called To NY-23 Polling Sites (Updated)

[brooklynite]

Source: NY Daily News

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."

...snip...

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."

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics /

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Well, if it's routine, that makes me feel a lot better...

(update: the head of one of the R/W groups sending Hoffman supporters into the District is complaining that his hard-working volunteers have been "threatened by the police".)

[mstinamotorcity]

1. Well if this is true

It would not surprise me one bit. If at first you don't succeed try try again. Scare tactics and intimidation are the r/w way of life. Voters be encouraged make a difference go vote. Then lets make a law to eliminate this kind of practice once and for all. Now i bet that sounds scary to the r/w.

[Union Yes]

2. May they teabag themselves right into an election loss! KNR

[TomClash]

3. Storm Troopers

Sturmabteilung.

[Union Yes]

4. Haven't ya heard? Stormtroopering keeps elections "fair" in 'Murikkka!!!!!

[TomClash]

6. They are itching for a civil war

Clowns.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

7. I think you're right, but they're not "clowns"

These people are dangerous, and others are going to die in the months ahead. You can bet the next generation of Timothy McVeigh is out there right now planning his martyrdom.

[GreenTea]

5. Intimidate progressives, that & vote stealing How republicans plan to steal elections (lookout 2010)

[zonkers]

8. Commisioner of what? Of the whacked and insane. NYers better have none of this.

[Tx4obama]

9. Tires NOT slashed ... it was a broken bottle - police confirm

Update: Police knock down Hoffman's "dirty tricks" accusation
http://bit.ly/CSroU

[Joanne98]

10. Did they bring their guns?

[proud2BlibKansan]

11. "covered with Hoffman stickers and yelling anti-choice stuff at voters"

That's a pretty nasty visual.

[depakid]

12. "She's from Texas, I think, and she won't leave."

All the while Hoffman's hollering about ACORN & "the troops."