Colwyn official says no to voter ID rules

[Patiod]

Source: Delco Times

A local resident, who serves as a judge of elections in Colwyn, said he plans to fight the new voter identification law at the polls in November.

“I wanted to publicly acknowledge that as judge of elections in Precinct 1 of Colwyn Borough that I will not comply with the new voting laws as they are unconditional,” Christopher L. Broach Sr., a Democrat, wrote in an email to the news media Wednesday morning.
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Pennsylvania Department of State spokesman Ron Ruman said he was disappointed that an elected official who was required to enforce election laws would choose not to. He said if Department of State officials become aware of violations on Election Day, they will report them to the local district attorney.

Ruman also provided a list of possible penalties for election officials who neglect to follow required voter ID procedures. The penalties include a fine not exceeding $1,000 or imprisonment of not more than one year, or both, for violation of oath of office.





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This Pennsylvanian is my new hero. If he gets fined, I'm sending him $20 to help defray the costs.

[Stuart G]

1. The courts are going to rule on this law..the trial I think has started...nt

[malthaussen]

4. Given that the Commonwealth has already admitted they have no evidence of fraud

I would hope that a legitimate court would kill the law. Ought to be a no-brainer.

-- Malk

[Igel]

2. The elections judge refuses to comply because they're "unconditional"?

Does he comply with any other unconditional laws, or only the conditional ones?

Or perhaps the election judge meant "unconstitutional.0?

Nah, can't be. He's a Democrat. Mistaking "unconstitutional" and "unconditional" is freeperish.

Unless the paper made a mistake.

Then again, "judge" in this case probably just means "poll worker", and so high expectations are not only unwarranted but most probably foolhardy.

[mrmpa]

3. In Pennsylvania the Judge of Elections is...........

the person who makes sure that all poll workers do their duties, that people vote, the vote is counted and turned in at County election headquarters.

There is a lot of work involved for the Judge, including as the case in our precinct that if a person is not registered at our precinct, we make a call to see where they need to be.

It is a long day and ultimately the responsibility of all actions that day fall on the Judge.

[DiverDave]

5. I think the fact that

the total of fraud cases in the whole state is ZERO should be shouted
from the freaking rooftops.

It needs to be said as many times as it takes to get every knucklehead to
understand it is for vote suppression. not fraud.

This guy is right to stand up to the racist bastards in Harrisburg.