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To: LindyBill who wrote (82192)	10/31/2004 9:00:13 AM
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THE CORNER - PENNSYLVANIA: ILLEGAL PA PRISONER ABSENTEE BALLOT SCANDAL UNCOVERED [Chris Lilik 10/31 12:47 AM] Things could not be stickier in PA over military absentee ballots, voter registration fraud, controversial polling locations, and now a huge scandal has come to light involving prisoner absentee ballots! According to a new Delaware County Times story, Congressman Curt Weldon and State Rep Steve Barrar are outraged over allegations that unsupervised individuals were allowed to go from prisoner to prisoner filling out their absentee ballots! Weldon says a federal lawsuit is going to be filed challenging the legitimacy of prison absentee ballots. In PA it is totally illegal for prisoners to submit absentee ballots. Both Weldon and Barrar observed the girls after something shady occurred at the prison, and one even tried to hide a ballot in her jacket: Four girls walked out from the prison who had clearly been doing some kind of election work," [Weldon] said. "When (state Rep.) Steve Barrar and I went up and asked them what they were doing, they said 'We can't tell you.' "We told them who we were and asked if they had collected any absentee ballots while they were in the prison. Sure enough, one of them pulled out a ballot and showed it to us. It was the most amazing thing I've ever seen — just the type of illegal, third-party handling of ballots that we had been tipped off about. And there were TV crews there filming the whole thing." … Barrar received a call from a prison source earlier this week who told him canvassers were entering Curran-Fromhold and helping prisoners with their ballots. "I can't believe that people are allowed to just come and go from the prison with absentee ballots in their hands," said Barrar, R-160, of Upper Chichester. "There was absolutely no oversight."