This video, from a Rep. Jan Schakowsky ‘get out the vote’ rally in Chicago, got some attention for the interviewers questioning of Schakowsky on the constitutional basis for ObamaCare and the Democratic Socialists. Overlooked was a far more interesting, and very serious, segment of the video.
Monday was the first day of ‘early voting’ in Illinois. Between now and November 2nd, any Illinois voter can cast their ballot in certain designated polling place. The prohibition on electioneering, i.e. campaigning inside a polling place, still apply, even if the voting isn’t on election day.
At about the one minute mark, Schakowsky joins a group of people walking into an early voting precinct. She is asked if she is excited about voting that day:
Actually I’m gonna walk in with these folks but I’m gonna vote on Election Day
You can’t do that.
Only people voting, election officials or credentialed poll watchers can enter a voting precinct. We don’t know exactly what she did or said inside the polling place, since the cameraman, observing the law, stayed out of the polling place.
But, we don’t need to know. Her presence alone constitutes electioneering.
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