#HillaryForfeitTheDelegates

Bernie Sanders forces have posted on Facebook what appears to be Bill Clinton inside polling stations again on election day, after a Chicago official assured the media that he wasn’t. Clinton’s activity, according to the Facebook post, is in at least one polling station, in Springfield, Illinois.

In an NBC report on Clinton showing up a polling station, Jim Allen, spokesperson for the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners, said of allegations that Clinton had entered Beulah Shoesmith Elementary:

"We have no complaints of a candidate's spouse going inside the polling place,”



It is illegal to campaign inside polling stations during general election and primary election voting in all 50 states

Specific to Illinois law, no campaign activity whatsoever is allowed closer than 100 feet to the polling place building, reading

(c) No person shall do any electioneering or soliciting of votes on primary day within any polling place or within one hundred feet of any polling place, or, at the option of a church or private school, on any of the property of that church or private school that is a polling place.

Section a) reads:

(a) No person other than election officers and the challengers allowed by law and those admitted for the purpose of voting, as hereinafter provided, shall be permitted within the proximity of the voting booths, except by authority of the primary officers to keep order and enforce the law.



Illinois netroots please help identify where Clinton is in the photograph. Watch this space for updates. The alleged incident follows similar violations by Bill Clinton of MA elections laws in the MA primary. The Massachusetts election was strategic and razor close, with Sanders at one point running ahead of Clinton.

UPDATE 1 March 15 — Facebook chatter now demanding Hillary forfeit all Illinois delegates if reports are true. Will protesters gather in front of election commission?



UPDATE 2 — March 15 — Activists speaking with Illinois Department of Elections report that the department opines that lawsuits must be immediately filed in each county that has had problems, but ordinarily state superior court is the venue for such complaints. Sanders campaign legal team has yet to comment.

Update 3 - March 15 — Bernie activists seeking further photographic evidence of Clinton inside polling places. One source notes wryly that this time Bernie forces were ready and followed Clinton around on his campaign stops.



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