Trump campaign sued Philadelphia over its new elections offices for mail voting

[NRSKarenRN, BSN, RN]

In PA, ballots are not permitted to be opened for processing until  7AM on Election Day.  Must be APPROVEd to be a pole watcher-submission to elections board by each party.  Karen
 

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PA Voting Guidelines

Who can be inside the polling place?

Only the following individuals are allowed inside or within 10 feet of the entrance to the polling place while voting is in progress:

• precinct election officials,
• constables,
• polling place clerks,
• machine inspectors,
• approved poll watchers,
• no more than 10 persons in the process of voting,
• approved persons assisting voters, and
• police officers in the act of voting or who have been called to the polling place to preserve the peace.

Everyone else, including individuals handing out campaign literature, must remain at least 10 feet away from the entrance to the polling place.

What happens if I am intimidated at the polls?

In Pennsylvania, it is illegal for any person or corporation through intimidation or coercion to induce or compel a person to vote or refrain from voting for a particular candidate or on a particular political issue....

 

 

Philadelphia Inquirer  10/02/2020

The Trump campaign sued Philadelphia over its new elections offices for mail voting

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HARRISBURG, Pa. — President Donald Trump’s campaign followed through on a threat to sue Philadelphia, filing papers in court Thursday night over city officials preventing campaign representatives from watching people registering to vote or filling out mail ballots in new satellite election offices.

The lawsuit comes amid Trump baselessly claiming he can only lose the crucial battleground state of Pennsylvania if Democrats cheat and, as he did in 2016′s campaign, suggesting that the Democratic bastion of Philadelphia needs to be watched closely for election fraud.

 

 

Trump says ‘bad things happen in Philadelphia.’ Here’s what actually happened in Philadelphia.

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In fact, the Trump campaign has no certified poll watchers yet in Philadelphia. And people were turned away not from traditional polling places where poll watchers are able to monitor proceedings as voters cast ballots on Election Day, but from newly opened satellite elections offices. Voters can use the satellite offices to request and return mail ballots, as they would at their regular county election offices.

 

[toomuchbaloney]

It seems that Trump doesn't care much for democracy. 

[NRSKarenRN, BSN, RN]

Winner, Winner PA Voters   - no intimidation at election offices.

Philadelphia Inquirer   10/09/2020

The Trump campaign can’t have poll watchers at Philly satellite election offices, judge says
 

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President Donald Trump’s campaign does not have the right for poll watchers to observe activities inside the city’s new satellite election offices, a Philadelphia judge ruled Friday.

“The satellite offices where these activities, and only these activities, occur are true ‘offices of the Board of Elections’ and are not polling places, nor public sessions of the Board of Elections, at which watchers have a right to be present under the election code,” Glazer wrote in his 14-page opinion.

 

Of course, Trump campaign submitted an appeal Friday afternoon in higher Commonwealth Court.

Stay turned for part 3.