Obama Campaigners Recorded Encouraging Voting in Multiple States
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A staff person working on the president's re-election campaign helped an undercover journalist register to vote for Barack Obama in Florida despite the reporter's expressed intention to vote twice in the hotly contested presidential race, video reviewed by Watchdog.org shows.
Casting more than one ballot in the same election is a violation of federal and state statutes. Experts said helping someone violate election law is also a crime.
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But New Jersey Assemblyman Declan O’Scanlon, R-Monmouth, cautioned, “It’s not a violation until the (second) vote is cast.”