Posted on 11/14/2008 11:06:38 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
Allegheny County elections officials today declared Rick Santorum something he already thought he was: a voter in Penn Hills.
Elections director Mark Wolosik ruled against a challenge to absentee ballots cast Nov. 4 by Mr. Santorum and his wife, Karen, saying the petitioner, Ed Vecchio, a Penn Hills Democratic committeeman, did not present sufficient evidence that the couple does not reside there.
"Wow! My vote counts!" said Mr. Santorum, reached in Northern Virginia, where he and his family have lived since he lost re-election to the Senate in 2006.
The Santorums maintained a residential listing at a home they own in Penn Hills. Two years ago, Mr. Vecchio's wife, Erin Vecchio, a Penn Hills school board member and chair of that community's Democratic committee, challenged the family's residency, forcing them to withdraw their children from the school district, which had underwritten tuition for a cyber charter school they attended from their home.
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That’s insane. They’ll stop at nothing it seems. This over-reaching is exactly the reason they will fail.
Pennsylvania must have some very liberal residency requirements.
Great, that’s 2 wins for our side, 1,233,444 for the other.
I can’t understand how, if he’s living in Virginia, that he’s still able to vote in PA.
Does the name Wexler mean anything to you? If it works for the dems.... but I have to agree, doesn’t sound like he lives in Penn. does it?
It would seem to me that if he is living in Virginia that he is in fact a resident of Virginia and no longer a resident on Pennsylvania.
However, it seems that some here believe that residency laws and voting requirements in the Philadelphia area should be very liberal.
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