Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY - The Vote Raffle Electioneering
Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY - Community leaders have set up a set of endorsements, and voting instructions -- mostly in Yiddish -- with a stamp from the United Jewish Organization, confirming the bearer has voted.
The result is a kind of raffle ticket. They're collected by children, and taken to school to enter into a contest for cards featuring animals or ambulances, according to Rabbi David Niederman, the head of the UJO. This stamps are often put on blank cards, to avoid the appearance that people are being rewarded for voting for a specific candidate he says. "Anyone who comes and says 'I voted,'" gets the stamp, Niderman said. "No matter with" who they're voting for.
But Isac Weinbergar says that he is not sure its legal, "they want that people should go out and vote. They tell the children when everybody comes out from the polling get a stamp on their card and the children bring back these cards then they go into a lottery. If a child has ten cards that means he has ten numbers." "If it's legal - I'm not so sure that it's legal - because you are using parochial schools for politics."
posted by VOS IZ NEIAS @ 9/13/2006 11:06:00 AM
6 Comments:
At 10:08 PM,
Anonymous said…
Here's the relevant election law, Article 17 Section 142.
§ 17-142. Giving consideration for franchise. Except as allowed bylaw, any person who directly or indirectly, by himself or through any other person:
1. Pays, lends or contributes, or offers or promises to pay, lend or contribute any money or other valuable consideration to or for any voter, or to or for any other person, to induce such voter or other person to vote or refrain from voting at any election, or to induce any voter or other person to vote or refrain from voting at such electionfor any particular person or persons... is guilty of a felony.
That seems pretty clear, and it doesn't look like Niederman's distinction -- if real -- is relevant under the law. The full, lengthy statute is after the jump.
§ 17-142. Giving consideration for franchise. Except as allowed by
law, any person who directly or indirectly, by himself or through any
other person:
1. Pays, lends or contributes, or offers or promises to pay, lend or
contribute any money or other valuable consideration to or for any
voter, or to or for any other person, to induce such voter or other
person to vote or refrain from voting at any election, or to induce any
voter or other person to vote or refrain from voting at such election
for any particular person or persons, or for or against any particular
proposition submitted to voters, or to induce such voter to come to the
polls or remain away from the polls at such election or to induce such
voter or other person to place or cause to be placed or refrain from
placing or causing to be placed his name upon a registration poll record
or on account of such voter or other person having voted or refrained
from voting for or against any particular person or for or against any
proposition submitted to voters, or having come to the polls or remained
away from the polls at such election, or having placed or caused to be
placed or refrained from placing or causing to be placed his or any
other name upon the registry of voters; or,
2. Gives, offers or promises any office, place or employment, or
promises to procure or endeavor to procure any office, place or
employment to or for any voter, or to or for any other person, in order
to induce such voter or other person to vote or refrain from voting at
any election, or to induce any voter or other person to vote or refrain
from voting at such election, for or against any particular person or
for or against any proposition submitted to voters, or to induce any
voter or other person to place or cause to be placed or refrain from
placing or causing to be placed his or any other name upon a
registration poll record; or,
3. Gives, offers or promises any office, place, employment or valuable
thing as an inducement for any voter or other person to procure or aid
in procuring either a large or a small vote, plurality or majority at
any election district or other political division of the state, for a
candidate or candidates to be voted for at an election; or to cause a
larger or smaller vote, plurality or majority to be cast or given for
any candidate or candidates in one such district or political division
than in another; or,
4. Makes any gift, loan, promise, offer, procurement or agreement as
aforesaid to, for or with any person to induce such person to procure or
endeavor to procure the election of any person or the vote of any voter
at any election; or,
5. Procures or engages or promises or endeavors to procure, in
consequence of any such gift, loan, offer, promise, procurement, or
agreement the election of any person, or the vote of any voter, at such
election; or,
6. Advances or pays or causes to be paid, any money or other valuable
thing, to or for the use of any other person with the intent that the
same, or any part thereof, shall be used in bribery at any election, or
knowingly pays or causes to be paid any money or other valuable thing to
any person in discharge or repayment of any money, wholly or in part
expended in bribery at any election, is guilty of a felony.
At 1:20 AM,
Anonymous said…
is isacc weinberger the maj of williamsburg how come he cant bring out his voters and supprters to to the elctiein box like the grat jewish lidders make a 100% legel get out the vote drive
i will sug for issac to first close his mote and get to real wark for the communnity
At 3:14 AM,
Anonymous said…
I "VONT" that 1.20 should learn how to spell. We are not an illiterate nation. Although reading some blogs here it would seem alot of us are!!
At 7:06 AM,
Anonymous said…
sounds like this guy Weinberger is an anti-samite. Is he a shomer shabbas?
At 7:27 PM,
Anonymous said…
I "VONT" that 3:14 should know how to spell A LOT. Not ALOT.
At 7:54 PM,
Anonymous said…
anon @ 7:27, good eyes
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