Philadelphia has long been famous for problems with vote
fraud and voting but it is the extremes they take it to that is
noteworthy. It is not just that they
illegally bus people to vote multiple times from poll to poll. It is not that even liberal Obama defenders
such as MSNBC’s Chris
Matthews admit it and dismiss it. It
is not just that voter intimidation occurs as seen in the infamous New Black
Panthers Party case. It is not that one of the
intimidators gets his charges dropped for no explained reason and gets elected
a local Democrat official.
Anthony Clark, who heads the
three-person panel in charge of Philadelphia elections and voter registration,
apparently isn't really into, ya know . . . voting.
The Committee of Seventy
wants Clark to leave at the end of his term if he can't disprove a report in
yesterday's Philadelphia City Paper that he missed the last five elections.
"It's astonishing that
the head of the board that oversees Philadelphia's elections doesn't
vote," Ellen Kaplan, the watchdog group's interim president and CEO, said
in a statement. "Clark should be the first to set an example for city
voters about the importance of voting. He can't credibly deliver this message
when he doesn't vote himself."
Clark, a Democrat who is up
for re-election next year, hasn't voted - in person or by absentee ballot -
since the 2011 general election, City Paper reported. He did not return an email
or phone call to his city office requesting comment yesterday.
One reason Clark may not be voting is he already knows
the result. Or I guess Ohio Election
Official and recipient of a standing
ovation Melowese Richardson six votes per election were to make up for
Clark. Jokes aside, Clark’s failure to
vote is not criminal or even unethical but it does call into question his
commitment to the process in a place that needs a dedicated election
official.
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