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Posted on 11/01/2004 6:58:53 AM PST by alchemist54
Freelance Journalist Arrested After Photographing Voting Lines
POSTED: 6:10 am EST November 1, 2004
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- A freelance journalist taking pictures of voters waiting outside the Palm Beach County elections headquarters was arrested after ignoring a deputy's orders to stop, sheriff's officials said.
James S. Henry, of Sag Harbor, N.Y., was charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest without violence.
Sheriff's Deputy Al Cinque tried to stop Henry as he shot pictures of about 600 people standing in line to vote Sunday afternoon. Henry began running away, but Cinque tackled him, the Palm Beach Post reported.
The deputy pinned Henry, 54, to the ground, yelling for him to stop moving, then punched him in the back. Cinque handcuffed Henry's left arm, pulled him to his feet and punched him again as Henry tried to hand him identification cards, according to the paper.
But sheriff's office spokesman Paul Miller said Monday that Henry "tripped over his own feet" as he ran away. He was heading toward the building's front door, and the deputy "has to use whatever reasonable force is necessary under the circumstances," Miller said.
Miller said the deputy had asked Henry to move to another area to snap pictures.
"His actions were compromising the elections process and intimidating people that were attempting to wait to vote," Miller said. "He was in their faces."
Assistant Palm Beach County Attorney Leon St. John said Cinque was enforcing new rules, enacted Friday by elections chief Theresa LePore, that prohibit reporters from talking with or photographing voters waiting outside polling stations.
The restrictions were prompted by "numerous complaints by voters about being photographed and interviewed," St. John said.
Other reporters, who witnessed the arrest, had not been aware of the new restrictions. Miller said he did not know of other journalists being stopped.
Henry, who is also an attorney and the managing director of strategy consulting firm Sag Harbor Group, is working on a book about "electoral democracy," according to his Web site.
He was being held on $500 bond.
Copyright 2004 by The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
Yes, God forbid anyone see the Dems revolving door voting.
Odd.
The police don't chase down demo's beating up repubbie campaign workers ....
Don't arrest demo's tearing up Bush-Cheney signs frm 4-year old girls ...
The pig will be allowed to set up his cameras because he is in the communist kamp!
"Assistant Palm Beach County Attorney Leon St. John said Cinque was enforcing new rules, enacted Friday by elections chief Theresa LePore, that prohibit reporters from talking with or photographing voters waiting outside polling stations."
Unconstitutional. Lepore has no authority to restrict the press. Sorry lady.
Lines backed up because Dems exit one door, and come back in other door for next round of voting - revolving door voting.
Is one early poling place handling more than one precinct? Maybe even the whole county? If so, then they have to look up the voters names from a much larger list, figure out which ballot to give to the voter and record which precinct it sould go to to be counted. A normal polling place only has to worry about one precinct and one set of blank ballots.
I was planning on being away from home tomorrow so I voted absentee last week. It took a lot longer to track down my precinct, give me the right ballot and walk me through having a candidate list separate from the votamatic machine instead of just signing in and going to the voting booth with the candidates names already mounted.
Hey, this guy James S. Henry is a far leftie who says we should copy election procedures from other countries such as Brazil. He agrees with Jimmy Carter that the 2000 election was a fraud. He says we should withdraw from Iraq and never mind the consequences. He agreed with Ted Sorenson that the Abu Ghraib scandal made him "weep for our country." I could go on and on.
He's doing all this filming and photography at the polls to write a book. He and his co-author{who left the EPA} are globalists of the worst and most extreme kind.
How can your photo being taken waiting in line intimidate you? And how can you attempt to wait? I mean, you're either waiting, or you aren't.
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