{"id":1727532,"date":"2022-11-07T06:00:05","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T11:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1727532"},"modified":"2022-11-07T06:04:58","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T11:04:58","slug":"dem-poll-worker-ejected-after-pressuring-voters-to-oppose-pro-parent-school-board-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dem-poll-worker-ejected-after-pressuring-voters-to-oppose-pro-parent-school-board-candidates\/","title":{"rendered":"Dem Poll Worker Ejected After Pressuring Voters to Oppose Pro-Parent School Board Candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdem-poll-worker-ejected-after-pressuring-voters-to-oppose-pro-parent-school-board-candidates%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1727532&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/original_electionering_2.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/democrats-face-voters-anger-over-high-cost-of-groceries-report\">Democrat<\/a> poll worker in Carmel, a suburb of Indianapolis, <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/indiana-parents-lose-custody-after-court-rules-not-affirming-childs-gender-identity-is-abuse\">Indiana<\/a>, was ejected from their polling site on Saturday after sources reported that she was pressuring citizens to vote for Democrat candidates in a <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/local-indianapolis-paper-busted-for-publishing-false-claims-about-school-board-candidate-weeks-before-election-report\">school board race<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Executive Director of the Chalkboard Review Tony Kinnett wrote, &#8220;BREAKING: Democrat poll worker in Indianapolis ejected after she was caught pressuring voters AT THE POLLS not to vote for pro-parent school board candidates she called &#8216;racist&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.co.clark.in.us\/images\/2022\/PDF\/elections\/2022-Election-Day-Handbook.pdf\">Indiana Election Day Handbook<\/a>, which covers the rules for poll workers on both election day and early voting throughout the election cycle, explains electioneering on page 5.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;State law defines &#8216;electioneering&#8217; as making a verbal statement or displaying a written statement indicating support or opposition to any candidate, political party, or public question appearing on the ballot,&#8221; the handbook states. It is a Class A misdemeanor crime.<\/p>\n<p>Kinnet posted an update on Sunday stating, &#8220;We have been told by multiple sources that the Hamilton County (IN) sheriff&#8217;s department will begin investigation on Monday. @ChalkboardRev is standing by for a statement from the Ham. Co. Election board.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>The poll worker allegedly engaged in electioneering was selecting the Democrat straight ticket on a voter&#8217;s ballot as she was explaining how the voting machines worked.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>There are a variety of school board seats in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hamiltoncounty.in.gov\/DocumentCenter\/View\/17611\/Candidates-filed-at-Hamilton-County-Office\">contention in Hamilton County<\/a>, but, as Kinnet notes, the GOP candidates have been unified in their pro-parent positions.<\/p>\n<p>Early voting started in <a href=\"http:\/\/office\">Hamilton County on October 12<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton County Republican Party Chairman Mario Massilliamany posted a statement after the incident, writing, &#8220;A Democrat poll worker in Carmel was removed from working an early voting site for attempting to pressure voters not to support one of our GOP-endorsed school board candidates. I have been in communication with local election officials to make sure poll workers are reminded that such activity, called electioneering, is illegal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This should serve as a cautionary reminder that those desperate to hold on to power or gain power will do anything &#8211; including breaking the law &#8211; to thwart the efforts of parents and taxpayers to replace our school boards with officials who more accurately reflect the values of our community,&#8221; Massilliamany added.<\/p>\n<p>The report that the poll worker claimed a GOP candidate was &#8220;racist&#8221; comes after an Indiana Democrat political action committee, HSEqual, said that voting for the Republican would set the clocks back to the time of Jim Crow.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HSEqual_IN?s=20&#038;t=oc_uUb66i3M_Mh2lpca8iw\">HSEqual say<\/a> they are a &#8220;group of people concerned about equity in HSE schools.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kinnet reports that while no official response has yet been given, Indiana Democrats are\u00a0&#8220;planning to claim this is just a misunderstanding caused by &#8220;forgetting to set up the &#8216;no electioneering&#8217; signs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>UPDATE: <a href=\"https:\/\/chalkboardreview.com\/breaking-democrat-poll-worker-ejected-after-caught-electioneering-preselecting-straight-dem-ticket\/\">According to Chalkboard Review<\/a>, the poll worker, James Zheng, was accused by the election administrator, Beth Sheller, of telling black voters &#8220;not to vote for the racist candidates outside.&#8221; Several of the pro-parent candidates running for school board were beyond the electioneering boundaries nearby.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Democrat poll worker in Carmel, a suburb of Indianapolis, Indiana, was ejected from their polling site on Saturday after sources reported that she was pressuring citizens to vote for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1727535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1727532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1727532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1727535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1727532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1727532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1727532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}