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2016-03-05 Government

Why nearly 100,000 people are calling for Bill Clinton's arrest

[NYP] Nearly 100,000 people have signed an online petition calling for Bill Clinton’s arrest for violating Massachusetts election law on Super Tuesday by campaigning close to -- and even inside -- polling places.

The drive was launched by supporters of Bernie Sanders, who accused Bubba of stumping for his wife, Hillary, within 150 feet of a polling location in New Bedford and inside others in Newton and Boston’s West Roxbury neighborhood.

"This is a call for the immediate arrest of President Bill Clinton for clear, knowing and egregious violation of the campaign laws to swing an election in a significant way. It could not be any clearer in the Massachusetts General Laws," the petition states.

Massachusetts Secretary of State William Galvin’s website says, "On Election Day, certain activities are prohibited within the polling location and within 150 feet of the polling place," including the "solicitation of votes for or against, or any other form of promotion or opposition of, any person or political party."

The Sanders supporters said photos prove the ex-prez violated the law by attending a rally outside a polling place in New Bedford and entering polling stations in the other two communities.

Posted by Besoeker 2016-03-05 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11138 views ] Top

#1 FBI to yet another Clinton attorney: "Take a number."

Posted by Blossom Unains5562 2016-03-05 01:17|| 2016-03-05 01:17|| Front Page Top

#2 100,001.

Posted by Skidmark 2016-03-05 02:46|| 2016-03-05 02:46|| Front Page Top

#3 The UN election monitors didn't think that Texas law applied to them. Same thing here, people like this are just above the law.

Posted by Elmavish Panda1401 2016-03-05 04:58|| 2016-03-05 04:58|| Front Page Top

#4 Laws do not apply to Clintons. Look at their history, starting at Whitewater. Ask Vince Foster... oh. Travelgate. all the way up to Benghazi and Hillary's classified information on a hacked personal email server hosted in bathroom in Colorado.

The laws only apply to other people.

Posted by Speresing Thrererong5669 2016-03-05 05:28|| 2016-03-05 05:28|| Front Page Top

#5 Let the peons eat cake.

Posted by Zenobia Ghibelline6834 2016-03-05 07:41|| 2016-03-05 07:41|| Front Page Top

#6 Arrest the Mayor, too. He was there.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2016-03-05 09:24|| 2016-03-05 09:24|| Front Page Top

#7 The law:

(c) Campaign Material.
No campaign material intended to influence the vote of a voter in the ongoing election, including campaign literature, buttons, signs, and ballot stickers, may be posted, exhibited, circulated, or distributed in the polling place, in the building where it is located, on the building walls, on the premises where the building stands, or within 150 feet of an entrance door to the building. As used in this paragraph and M.G.L. c. 54, § 65, the "premises" where or on which the building stands means only the grounds in the immediate vicinity of the building, and does not include the entirety of a large parcel of real property. No person shall collect or solicit signatures on nomination papers or petitions of any kind within 150 feet of an entrance door to the building. The police officer shall enforce this rule under the direction of the warden. Access to the polling place must be open and unobstructed and the voters may not be hindered.
(d) Activities at Polling Place.
Within 150 feet of a polling place as defined in 950 CMR 53.03(18)(c), no person shall solicit votes for or against, or otherwise promote or oppose, any person or political party or position on a ballot question, to be voted on at the current election.

Chapter 56 VIOLATIONS OF ELECTION LAWS
Section 29. Whoever wilfully and without lawful authority hinders, delays or interferes with, or aids in hindering, delaying or interfering with, a voter while on his way to a primary, caucus or election, while within the guard rail, while marking his ballot or while voting or attempting to vote, or endeavors to induce a voter, before depositing his ballot, to disclose how he marks or has marked it, shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than one year.

Section 30. Whoever willfully obstructs the voting at a primary, caucus or election shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars.
:aside. He is already disbarred, pay the fine.

Posted by Sven the pelter 2016-03-05 14:28|| 2016-03-05 14:28|| Front Page Top

#8 From everything I read about this 'incident', all that Bill did was go around and shake a bunch of hands. There's nothing illegal about that. Furthermore, for what it's worth, Snopes didn't think any laws were broken, either. It doesn't surprise me that the 100,000 budding young totalitarians that signed this piece of shit 'petition' want someone arrested that does not agree with them.

Posted by Raj 2016-03-05 15:39|| 2016-03-05 15:39|| Front Page Top

#9 Shaking hands within 150 feet of the entrance pf a pooling station is a violation of the law. That law was put there for good reasons. Also, a lady was blocked from voting by all the people milling around; another violation. She has phone video evidence.

Posted by Sven the pelter 2016-03-05 15:56|| 2016-03-05 15:56|| Front Page Top

#10 "pf a pooling place" --> "of a polling place"

Sorry. Thought I had proofed it.

Posted by Sven the pelter 2016-03-05 15:58|| 2016-03-05 15:58|| Front Page Top

#11 Sven - if that's the case, then I stand corrected.

Funny this - when I went to vote on Tuesday, I dug up an old 'Buchanan for President' button and pinned it on my jacket. My roommate, a cop, said 'I'm surprised they didn't ask you to take the button off', because apparently, that's a violation of the law.

Another 'funny thing' - a guy running for Quincy city council was out in front of the school shaking hands with everybody, so that's why I concluded that gladhanding was okay.

Posted by Raj 2016-03-05 16:22|| 2016-03-05 16:22|| Front Page Top

#12 At my polling place there are always tables setup with candidate flyers; all carefully 151 feet from the entrance out on the grass. You could tell that they used a tape measure because they are arranged on an arc.

Posted by Sven the pelter 2016-03-05 16:29|| 2016-03-05 16:29|| Front Page Top

#13 Also, I wouldn't sweat the Buchanan button. The laws apply to candidates in the current election (e.g. folks on the ballot).

Posted by Sven the pelter 2016-03-05 16:31|| 2016-03-05 16:31|| Front Page Top

#14 A candidate can of course vote at their own polling station. I don't think that Mr. Bill was voting. Any reasonable person would have to conclude that Mr. HBill was campaigning.

Posted by Sven the pelter 2016-03-05 16:38|| 2016-03-05 16:38|| Front Page Top

#15 Billy boy knows the law. All voters must be at least 18 years of age. It avoids that awkward "Your honor, I swear I thought she was of age" in the arraignment.

Posted by Procopius2k 2016-03-05 18:27|| 2016-03-05 18:27|| Front Page Top

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