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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...

PENNSYLVANIA: ILLEGAL PA PRISONER ABSENTEE BALLOT SCANDAL UNCOVERED Chris Lilik 10/31 12:47 AM Things could not be stickier in PA over military absentee ballots, voter registration fraud, controversial polling locations, and now a huge scandal has come to light involving prisoner absentee ballots! According to a new Delaware County Times story, Congressman Curt Weldon and State Rep Steve Barrar are outraged over allegations that unsupervised individuals were allowed to go from prisoner to prisoner filling out their absentee ballots! Weldon says a federal lawsuit is going to be filed challenging the legitimacy of prison absentee ballots. In PA it is...

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...

Lawmaker Threatens Political Lawsuit Oct 29, 2004 11:38 pm US/Eastern PHILADELPHIA (KYW) An area lawmaker has threatened to file a lawsuit that could affect who gets to vote. CBS 3’s Valerie Levesque reports Congressman Curt Weldon will file a federal lawsuit in regards to allegations of voter fraud at the Curran-Fromhold Prison in Northeast Philadelphia. He claims that college students have been handing out and collecting absentee ballots at the facility for weeks. In Pennsylvania, state law makes it illegal for a third party to distribute or collect the ballots. Weldon apparently caught the students with a ballot in their...

LORDY, LORDY, why does he do these things?