Posted on 11/07/2006 1:18:42 PM PST by Dane
ALLENTOWN, Pa. - A man was arrested at a polling site Tuesday after election workers said he smashed an electronic voting machine with a paperweight, police said.
Michael Young, 43, of Allentown, will face charges of felony criminal mischief and tampering with voting machines, Assistant Police Chief Ronald Manescu said.
Authorities said they did not know the motive for the incident, which happened around 12:30 p.m. at the polling place inside the Good Shepherd Home.
"He came in here very peaceably and showed his ID, then he got on the machine and just snapped," volunteer Gladys Pezoldt told The Morning Call of Allentown.
Witnesses said Young then sat down and waited for police, who arrested him without incident.
The machine's screen was damaged and it was not immediately clear whether the votes recorded on the machine could be retrieved. More than 130 people had voted at the site by the time of the incident.
The machine is valued at more than $5,000, police said.
Good Shepard Home is a rehab hospital in the downtown Allentown area. Heavily dem area so he wasn't all that bright was he?
Well, he appears to have been a Dim :-)
Very clever Trib.... ;^)
:-)
Didn't they put Cool Hand Luke in jail for something similar - smashing the heads off parking meters????
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