Posted on 10/14/2010 2:22:36 PM PDT by i88schwartz
Rest in Peace, Junior Sample! I’ve used BR-549 in mockery many many times thru the years...
Someone will have to file a complaint.
LLS
I’m sure Holder will investigate.
She was probably babbling in Wookienese and, without thinking, switched to English and got caught.
What the h e double hockey sticks is she wearing?
I’d be surprised if she didn’t just go ahead and fill out their ballots for them.
So the law quoted in post 23 doesn't mean what it says?
Of course he ‘dismissed’ it.
Like he did the Tea party...
No, it doesn't say "voter". It ways "other person", and that's where the courts have latitude, so what you need to do is to find out what Illinois own suppreme court says that means in the context of that law.
After all, if it means "all persons" then a son helping his elderly mother could be EXCLUDED from the polls, along with his mother, and they would be prevented from voting.
You'd then take them out and punish them for whatever it was they said.
I see a number of infringements of fundamental rights in any interpretation that says you can't talk about anything, certainly not a politician, at the polls.
BTW, the giant levitating Wookey's husband IS NOT A CANDIDATE for any of the offices on the ballot this time, so where was her "electioneering"?
The IL Elections official says she broke the law.
You ought to read the law and what it says about people helping others vote. I skimmed through it when somebody posted a link to the law on one of the threads earlier and I didn't get the impression that the law as written would stand in the way of somebody getting help to vote.
The law wouldn't say "any other person" if it didn't mean "any other person". If the simple language of a law is still wide open to the discretionary whim of some official, then we aren't operating under the rule of law. We're then operating under the rule of men.
I don't see this as something they ought to pursue legal action against Michelle Obama over, but I DO think the White House and Michelle should admit that she violated the law by mistake. The Executive Branch of our country shouldn't be sending the message that what the laws say is irrelevant.
By that logic, Moveon.org could set up a booth with campaign materials in the polling place, as long as none of the people manning the booth had a relative as a candidate in the election.
Electioneering: "To work actively for a candidate or political party."
If she's saying anything to persuade people to support a particular candidate, or political stance, or party, she's electioneering, even if she doesn't even KNOW any of the people running.
Do you think you're the first person to read that law? It's been around a long time now and it's exceedingly rare for any voters to be cuffed and hauled away for talking while waiting in line to vote.
Give me a break. You simply do not see people being arrested and hauled away for punishment for talking at the polling place.
She was there as a voter, not a person in the class of individuals RESTRICTED by the law.
I doubt any Illinois State Board of Elections Official would say what he is purported to have said had he known the woman was at the location she was directed to go to to vote.
No, wouldn't happen.
I said bring me the court decisions, not the uninformed opinions of lay people.
If she had any training in law, she’d know better.
Really? She is?
Oh, yeah, an ACORN lawyer.
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