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BOSTON (AP) Republican Mitt Romney's campaign filed a complaint several hours after polls opened Tuesday, saying union workers were improperly influencing voters in the city's Jamaica Plain section.

Romney campaign adviser Rob Gray said officials with the Service Employees International Union were seen entering voting booths with some voters in Ward 11, Precinct 4 of Jamaica Plain.

''We've got union officials going into the booth with people and telling them how to vote,'' Gray said.

Silvia Panfil, a spokeswoman for SEIU in Massachusetts, said the union was not aware of any wrongdoing and it had not received any notice of a complaint.

Secretary of State William Galvin was reviewing the complaint, said spokesman Brian McNiff.

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Shannon O'Brien's campaign called the complaint outrageous and said there was ''no illegal or untoward activity.''

State law prohibits political activity within 150 feet of a polling place.

Romney complains of voter irregularities in Boston


2 posted on 11/05/2002 11:15:33 AM PST by Stand Watch Listen
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To: Stand Watch Listen
''We've got union officials going into the booth with people and telling them how to vote,''

Hey, this is about as ILLEGAL as it gets...oh, wait. The Rats don't follow the law. Never mind.

5 posted on 11/05/2002 11:23:48 AM PST by Puppage
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"Service Employees International Union"

A well known Communist front organization.

9 posted on 11/05/2002 11:43:59 AM PST by Uncle Miltie
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