Those wacky Republicans

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By Julian Walker
The Virginian-Pilot
© October 27, 2008
RICHMOND

A phony State Board of Elections flier advising Republicans to vote on Nov. 4 and Democrats on Nov. 5 is being circulated in several Hampton Roads localities, according to state election officials.

In fact, Election Day for voters of all political stripes remains Nov. 4.

The somewhat official-looking flier – it features the State Board logo and the state seal – is dated Oct. 24 and indicates that “an emergency session of the General Assembly adopted the . . . emergency (voting) regulations to ease the load on local electorial (sic) precincts and ensure a fair electorial (sic) process.”

The four-paragraph flier concludes by apologizing “for any inconvenience this may cause but (we) felt this was the only way to ensure fairness to the complete electorial (sic) process.”

However, no emergency action has been taken by the General Assembly, which isn’t in session, and furthermore, doesn’t have the authority to change the date of a federal election.

State Board of Election officials today said they are aware of the flier, but disavowed any connection to it.

“It’s not even on our letterhead, they just copied the logo from our web site,” said agency staffer Ryan Enright, noting the flier has been forwarded to State Police for investigation as a possible incident of voter intimidation.
Election officials did not specify in which Hampton Roads localities the flier had been spotted.

The State Police, meanwhile, are aware of the complaint and looking into it, said spokeswoman Corinne Geller.

Julian Walker, 804-697-1564 Julian.walker@pilotonline.com

Of course I'd hope that any Democrat or Republican would have enough sense to not be fooled, but still.

Carl

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Of course I'd hope that any Democrat would have enough sense to not be fooled, but still.

Carl

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