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FIRST LADY CAMPAIGNED INSIDE POLLING PLACE
Thu Oct 14 2010 16:19:25 ET

First lady Michelle Obama appears to have violated Illinois law — when she engaged in political discussion at a polling place!

The drama began after Mrs. Obama stopped off at the Martin Luther King Center on the south side of Chicago to cast an early vote.

After finishing at the machine, Obama went back to the desk and handed in her voting key.

She let voters including electrician Dennis Campbell, 56, take some photos.

“She was telling me how important it was to vote to keep her husband’s agenda going,” Campbell said.

According to the pool reporter at the scene, the conversation took place IN the voting center not far from the booths.

Illinois state law — Sec. 17-29 (a) — states: “No judge of election, pollwatcher, or other person shall, at any primary or election, do any electioneering or soliciting of votes or engage in any political discussion within any polling place, within 100 feet of any polling place.”

A top Ilinois State Board of Elections official tells the DRUDGE REPORT how Mrs. Obama may have simply been ignorant of the law and thus violated it unintentionally.

“You kind of have to drop the standard for the first lady, right?” the official explained late Thursday. “I mean, she’s prety well liked and probably doesn’t know what she’s doing.”

WHITE HOUSE DEFENDS ELECTIONEERING

When questioned about the brazen nature of Mrs. Obama’s campaigning, press secretary Robert Gibbs defended the action.

“I don’t think it would be much to imagine, the First Lady might support her husband’s agenda,” Gibbs smiled.

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[library user]

“You kind of have to drop the standard for the first lady, right?” the official explained late Thursday.

Yes, we all must bow to the First Wookie. Give me a freakin' break!

[Rastus]

“You kind of have to drop the standard for the first lady, right?” the official explained late Thursday. “I mean, she’s pretty well liked and probably doesn’t know what she’s doing.”

Her being FLOTUS is a lowering of the standards, and she doesn't know a thing.

[AmericanInTokyo]

This is an outrage. But the cavalier, "man, like, chill out" treatment of it is in the same manner we turn a blind eye and even joke about US Federal Immigration Violations. This is another crack in the wall about the United States being a nation of LAW and ORDER. If we want to sink into Third Worldism, folks, you are looking right at at.

In most advanced, civilized countries this behavior at a polling place would have SERIOUS legal implications,and would probably end with the result of arrest or at least heavy fining of the candidate's wife. I can think of this all over Asia, and in Latin America being handled seriously in this manner, very quickly (once in the Press like this).

I know here in Japan, where we gave them and helped develop for them their postwar Democracy, the actions of the First Lady a) would violate 公職選挙法における連座制は、同法251条の2から251条の4 (Public Election Law, relatinting to "Renzasei", Article 251 Section 2 to 4).

b) would not be papered over by the Japanese media or laughed off by the Prime Minister's office or spokesman.

[Lmo56]

“I don’t think it would be much to imagine, the First Lady might support her husband’s agenda,” Gibbs smiled.

Hey Gibbs - Defending his agenda is not against the law. HOWEVER, doing it within 100 feet of a polling place IS ...

DUMBASS !!!