Observers ejected from city polling places

[hue]

http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/news/177560431.html

Prosecutors monitoring polling places during Tuesday's elections removed several election observers, following complaints lodged by election inspectors, Assistant District Attorney Bruce Landgraf said.

One of the polling places where an observer was removed was at Milwaukee's French Immersion School, at Lisbon Ave. and N. 51st St. Information on which other polling places had problems with observers was not immediately available.

The ejection of the observers was prompted by "rules infractions and not following the requests of chief election inspectors" at polling places, Landgraf said.

Election observers are allowed to watch at polling places, but are not supposed to directly engage voters.

Lisa Catlin Weiner, the Milwaukee County election administrator, said some observers were reportedly "aggressive" with voters, prompting complaints.

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very near my home!!

[SCVDem]

1. I knew it was the North side

as soon as I read Milwaukee.

Are there any voting problems in white areas of the country?

[Scuba]

2. Perhaps the blackest part of the city. Wonder what color the intimidators, er, observers were.

[mojowork_n]

3. Welll...

That's north tip of Sherman Park. Kind of 'gentrified' before there was such a word.
Not as nice as it once was but it's not.... as uniformly, crushingly poor as other
parts of the North Side.

As for the intimidators, it's probably the same kind of network ThinkProgress
reported on operating a little to the south of us. Astroturf-funded "non-profit."
(True the Vote is what they call themselves.)

http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/11/03/1134421/true-the-vote-walsh-poll-watchers/?mobile=nc

Illinois categorizes poll watchers as either partisan or nonpartisan. Presumably, True the Vote poll watchers will be posing as nonpartisan so as to not endanger their pending non-profit status. Yet this email to volunteers suggests they are recruiting partisan poll watchers for the Walsh campaign — in blatant defiance of their claim of nonpartisanship.