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>> Poor White Folk, afraid of a Black man.
I think they were more afraid of the nightstick than the black man.
Thus far, we have one guy alleging that there was a second black man standing outside of the polls and that same one guy alleging that there was a stick in the second guy's hand.
That's not evidence of voter intimidation.
BUT Faux News cameras right outside the polling places do represent voter-intimidation and they should get the hell out of there.
They said they arrested the guy with the night stick, right?
Fox News, like any other news agency has a right to be outside of the polling place. There is a buffer zone, 10' I believe, and as long as they are outside of that they are not breaking any laws.
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> They said they arrested the guy with the night stick, right?
According to that guy in the interview, the police asked the second black man to leave and may have escorted that man from the premises.
> Fox News, like any other news agency has a right to
> be outside of the polling place. There is a buffer
> zone, 10' I believe, and as long as they are outside
> of that they are not breaking any laws.
Pennsylvania has no state law explicitly forbidding cameras inside or outside of polling places. It's up to the county election boards to determine whether and where cameras should be allowed.
There is, however, a broadly worded law against "intimidation or coercion" and any action that may "impede[], prevent[], or otherwise interfere[] with the free exercise of the elective franchise by any voter."
Taking pictures of people entering and exiting a polling place -- even from 100 feet away -- in a district already known for outright physical threats against black voters is treading awfully close to voter intimidation.
