http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/11/2/43519/4053
How to CHALLENGE THE CHALLENGERS
by bushsux
Tue Nov 2nd, 2004 at 08:35:19 GMT
In Ohio and Pennsylvania, the law allows ONLY "qualified electors" to serve as challengers. My guess is the same kind of law applies everywhere.
The Sixth District Court of Appeals in Ohio overturned a Federal Court ruling requiring provisional ballots to be counted even if they were cast in the wrong precinct.
They based that decision on a reading of a qualified voter being one who is registered in the proper precinct.
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(laws cited below....but here is the strategy)
Make sure these people LIVE IN THE PRECINCT, and if they do, force these scum to OPERATE IN THE SUNSHINE by demanding their name and address, and then LETTING YOUR NEIGHBORS KNOW WHO IS TRYING TO SUPPRESS THEIR VOTE.
Go home, type up a flyer, make copies, and then start handing them out....
Here is the relevant law in Ohio (§ 3505.21)..
At any primary, special, or general election, any political
party supporting candidates to be voted upon at such
election and any group of five or more candidates may
appoint to any of the polling places in the county or city
one person, a qualified elector, who shall serve as
challenger for such party or such candidates during the
casting of the ballots, and one person, a qualified
elector, who shall serve as witness during the counting of
the ballots; provided that one such person may be appointed
to serve as both challenger and witness.
A similar law applies in Pennsylvania...
§ 3051(b) The vote of any elector shall be rejected by the election officers if they or any one of them shall of their own knowledge know him to be guilty of a violation of any of the provisions of this section, or if upon challenge of such elector by any qualified elector, election officer, overseer or watcher, it shall be proved to their satisfaction that such elector has violated the provisions of this section, and in no case shall any elector so challenged be permitted to vote, unless he shall make written affidavit that the matter of the challenge is untrue.
