We’ve been pulling together our collective polling place experiences for a little round-up of the Potomac Primary Thus Far, but Josh Levin over at Slate’s Trailhead blog has the scoop of the day: he caught Mayor Adrian Fenty pressing the flesh for Obama right in-between two signs prohibiting electioneering outside an Adams Morgan polling place.
And what’s Mayor Fenty’s likely punishment? “A person who violates the provisions of this paragraph shall, upon conviction, be fined not less than $50 or more than $500 or imprisoned for not more than 30 days, or both.”
Fenty’s press secretary, Dena Iverson, told me that the mayor would be out all day today encouraging District residents to vote for Obama. When told that the mayor had been encouraging this reporter right next to a pair of “no electioneering” signs, Iverson sighed, “Oh, great.” She continued, “The only other polling place I saw him at, he was doing it outside the signs. I will make sure he will not accidentally cross any lines he’s not supposed to.”
Classic! We hope the Mayor heeds your warnings, Dena.
Below you’ll find some of our voting experiences from this morning – more than one of us encountered broken optical scanners, but otherwise voting seems to be going smoothly across the region. Feel free to add your experience in comments.
Photo by KCIvey