Thanks to Roxanne for sending me this story about the ramping up of voter intimidation tactics. The student Democrats at Drexel University in Philadelphia are reporting that fliers are being strewn around campus telling students that if they have outstanding warrants or tickets and try to vote, they’ll be arrested. They’re attributing the information to an “Obama supporter”, presumably because you’d have to be beneath a fool to believe McCain or McCain supporters. Here’s a picture of the offending document. You can click on to see a larger version:
Usually the “show up to vote and you’ll be arrested” fliers are distributed in lower income and minority-dominated neighborhoods, but it’s obvious why college campuses would be targeted, since Obama’s campaign is such a pull for young people. I’m sort of interested in why these fliers always seem to be almost deliberately illiterate. A sample from this one: