Report: Police Called To NY-23 Polling Sites...To Deal With Rowdy Hoffman-Backers

[Richard Tafoya]

Looks like the conservatives are doing what they do best -- trying to keep anyone with a differing opinion from expressing that opinion. Someone should tell them that elections are not town hall meetings.

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We now have a report of on-the-ground mischief in NY-23, the sort of interference that Republicans have been warning about for today. The catch: Democrats are claiming that the mischief is coming from supporters of the Conservative candidate, Doug Hoffman.

The New York Daily News reports that police were called to polling sites in St. Lawrence County, a Democratic area in the district, to deal with some rowdy Hoffman-backers.

Former state Democratic chairwoman June O'Neill claimed that Hoffman-supporters are "yelling anti-choice stuff at voters" near the polls, that a woman involved said she was a "commissioner" -- and is allegedly from Texas -- and wouldn't leave the polling site. "This is not the way we roll in the North Country," O'Neill quipped.