Monday, June 11, 2012

Voter Intimidation in Racine by Illinois County Clerk. Who Brought in Out-of-Staters?

I had to laugh at an audio clip played by Sly in the Morning, where conservative talker Vicki McKenna took a call from a Racine voter who saw, and took, pictures of out of state license plates seen on vehicles parked around their polling place.

The automatic assumption was that out-of-state Democrats drove in to vote for Mayor Tom Barrett, and not the other way around. Let's get serious, Racine overwhelmingly voted for Scott Walker.

Maybe tea party operatives forgot to tell their fraudulent voters who they should have voted for in the senate recall race, because that win went to Democrat John Lehman. From the Root River Siren:
A complaint has been filed with the Government Accountability Board by a Racine resident which stems from an alleged act of voter intimidation by a poll observer at Jefferson Lighthouse Elementary School polling place. The poll observer has been identified as Willard Helander who turns out to be the County Clerk of Lake County, Illinois.

Helander reportedly harassed and intimidated voters and even tried to prevent one voter from putting her ballot in the voting machine by following close behind and shouting at the voter.

Other voters in the area are organizing further complaints against Helander and questioning why the Jefferson Lighthouse Chief Inspector didn't remove her even though she was warned many times while she was present in the polling place on Tuesday. 
Do I think there was voter fraud? Hey, Republicans do, so maybe... But do I think there was election fraud? Sure.

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