Posted on 11/01/2004 8:31:15 AM PST by Tribune7
After waging a successful campaign to extend the deadline for accepting overseas military ballots, Republicans turned their attention to the prison vote Friday, vowing to challenge the legitimacy of all absentee ballots received from any Pennsylvania correctional facility.
"We have every reason to believe that there has been gross abuse of the absentee ballot process in the prison system," said U.S. Rep. Curt Weldon, R-7, of Thornbury.
While waiting to begin a press conference outside Philadelphia’s Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility Friday afternoon, Weldon said he watched the crime he was prepared to speak about unfold before his eyes.
"Four girls walked out from the prison who had clearly been doing some kind of election work," he said. "When (state Rep.) Steve Barrar and I went up and asked them what they were doing, they said ‘We can’t tell you.’
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Weldon said former U.S. Attorney Robert E.J. Curran would be filing a suit in federal court challenging the legitimacy of all absentee ballots that originated from Pennsylvania prisons.
Barrar received a call from a prison source earlier this week who told him canvassers were entering Curran-Fromhold and helping prisoners with their ballots. "I can’t believe that people are allowed to just come and go from the prison with absentee ballots in their hands,"
State law prohibits incarcerated, convicted felons from submitting an absentee ballot. Pretrial detainees and misdemeanants are eligible to vote by absentee ballot.
According to Weldon, 20 prisoners at the Delaware County prison registered to vote, and just two mailed in their absentee ballots.
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I'll ping the rest of the list tonight.
This was reported on the Philly local CBS station on Friday night. Rep. Weldon caught some college girls red-handed walking out of the prison with absentee ballots. They ran away and refused to talk to him but he confiscated the balltos from them. Weldon has talked to prison guards who have seen "volunteers" inside the prisons marking the ballots for illiterate prisoners.
I wonder how many were hand delievered?
Don't you have to sign in to get into a prison. Find out who these democrats are and go after them.
Fast Eddie never fails to live up to his name.
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