Whoever intimidates, threatens, coerces, or attempts to intimidate, threaten, or coerce, any other person for the purpose of interfering with the right of such other person to vote or to vote as he may choose, or of causing such other person to vote for, or not to vote for, any candidate for the office of President, Vice President, Presidential elector, Member of the Senate, Member of the House of Representatives, Delegate from the District of Columbia, or Resident Commissioner, at any election held solely or in part for the purpose of electing such candidate, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.
Yo bub try working retail.
Cashier has trouble scanning an item.
Customer: “Well if it won’t scan, then it’s free?”
Customer walks into a bookstore and asks:
“Where are your non-fiction books?”
“Have you read all of these?”
“I was in here 6 months ago and there was a book on the front table and now it’s gone.” Salesclerk: “Do you remember the title?” Customer: “No, but it had a blue cover.” (industry inside info: half of the books published in a year have a blue cover)
@charliee and you don’t think we salesclerks don’t want to go postal?
But if you’re female in Texas and the police pull you over they’ll give you a free pelvic exam right there on the shoulder. What’s great about that is that is cuts out the insurance companies.
State cops raid voter registration office?
Time to shut that precinct down and file racketeering charges.
There has to be serious consequences to republicans or they will continue trying to fuck up the country.
Indiana report one step removed from a friend who receives text notifications from the state police I heard this yesterday. Very early on in this story, the Indiana state police have been sending texts out in their ‘alert list’ (think - big arrest just happened is an event that is a usual text to this list) - stating that essentially they were not doing anything (per the investigation) that they had not been asked to do.
Haven’t seen an investigative push but the Sec of State has asserted she didn’t know about the investigation when she first publicly warned (before walking back) that there was fraud happening via registration drives in which, she claimed, people who were already registered checked their registrations on line and found they were not registered. (This has been explained/debunked via the Indianapolis Star and reported on HuffPo early this week.)
So - she claims she didn’t order the investigation.
Elsewhere, early in the story claims were made that Pence ordered it (no evidence I have read to support that - could be but is only based on the fact that as Governor he had the power to launch such an investigation which is weak per “he had the opportunity/could have done”, rather than definitive. He goes on the record stating that HE did NOT order such an investigation.
That is - Pence says Not Me, I didn’t order the investigation.
Meanwhile state police text alert texts that they are not doing anything they were not asked to do (that is - someone with the authority to do so - called for an investigation.)
So who called for the investigation? Guessing this is a big story.
There are gun shops in every state who sell large numbers of firearms that end up in the hands of criminals. Without that smidgen of cynicism, I’d be sure that the next raid by the Indiana state police will be targeting one of those gun shops.
Indiana-born Judge Curiel will be hearing the TrumpU fraud trial which begins November 28, which hit me when I read somewhere that trumpet urged at a rally somewhere be sure and go vote on November 28. That sounds to me like he has that date on his small but retentive mind.
Curry seemed concerned about how vocal state police have been about their investigation with just weeks to go until the election. Such discussion could have a chilling affect on voters.
Not that it needs to be said here, but the State Police would probably consider that a feature, not a bug.
This is a serious problem, this confluence between far right wing rhetoric/attitudes, and state, county, and local police agencies. Not quite appropriate, but the term fifth column comes to mind. I don’t know how it’s addressed, but it better be, because I think we’re dealing with a state within the state.
Anybody who works retail or in any form of customer service comes away a crazy person, having turned into a misanthrope on a grand scale not only because of the kind of remarks you cite, but also “It’s 5:00 happy hour somewhere so let’s have a drink. My father’s buying. Make that two martoonies.” People have done this kind of work need to be very nice to those who still do it.
I’m guessing that by “voter forgery,” he means fraudulent voter registrations. There apparently is plenty of that, but it bears almost no relationship to voter fraud.
Conservative hysteria proves they’ve already given up.
This has to be the earliest presidential victory by any candidate in history. Mrs. Clinton has routed conservatives so badly, they’re giving up before the votes are even cast.
Now, let’s take the Senate and House, and really shake things up. Vote Democratic!
State Police Superintendent Doug Carter had been vocal about charges of
voter fraud and had appeared on local TV saying, "There’s voter fraud
and voter forgery in every state of America.”
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OK then, SHOW US YOUR PROOF MR CARTER. Here in Pima County Arizona voting is by paper ballot. When I show up at my polling place. I present my voter registration card and my ID to a gent at a table. He looks up my name on the list of registered voters in our precinct and notes it on a small printed form. I carry that to another table when I hand it and my two cards to a nice older lady who notes all this down. I then get shifted to a third person who looks over the papers, and finds my name in the roll of registered voters whereupon I write my name in the slot next to my name in the roll. Then I am issued a ballot. I go and fill it out. Then under the watchful eye of a poll marshal I put in the ballot box. This I suspect is not what happens in Indiana. Our system makes it damned difficult for voter fraud to happen. I have voted at the same place since 1980 and in the time I am aware of two instances of attempted wrongful voting. They didn’t succeed.
