Philadelphia, PA: Flyers Target Local Colleges

What region is affected? (City, County, State)	Philadelphia, PA
What voters would be affected?	College students seem to be the main target here.
How would tactic suppress votes?	There have been several anonymous fliers posted around the Drexel campus claiming that on election day people with outstanding tickets and warrants will be arrested when they try to vote. Below is a copy of what they say.
Who is behind it?	Anonymous poster. Despite their claim that this information came from an Obama rally I am guessing they are a McCain supporter as they are targeting students in Philadelphia.
Links to media/blog coverage? (provide headline with link, writer, name of outlet/blog and publication date. try to list most recent at top)	Tom Namako of City Paper did a post about this on September 24 entitled Voter Intimidation Tactics are Afoot at Drexel. Drexel Democratswebsite also has information about the incident up, September 22 Watching out for deceptive campaign practices in Pennsylvania, September 26, Election Protection (1-866-OUR-VOTE) The Philadelphia Daily News did an article on this on Thursday, October 2, 2008 "Vote Scam Flyers Target Black Neighborhoods" by Catherine Lucy False Flier Warns of Election Day Arrests in PA African-American Neighborhoods, Brad Friedman, BRADBLOG, October 4 'Tis the Season of Election Dirty Tricks: Scaring Student Voters, Avni Patel, ABC News' The Blotter, October 6
Possible laws violated?	Pennsylvania Code Section 3547
What's the last known status?	This has been getting some local press pointing out that this flier is false and can be considered voter suppression. The fliers have been taken down but may pop up again. It was reported to DOJ in late September.
What actions can be taken?	Take down the fliers when found Make sure students and other people in the area know these fliers are false, that no action of this sort is planned. Also if anyone knows who has been posting these fliers up contact either City of University Officials. Report incidents like this to Committee of Seventy (in Philadelphia, PA): http://www.seventy.org/COS_HM_Home.aspx Report incidents to ACLU: http://www.aclu.org/votingrights/index.html Report incidents to the Coalition for Voting Integrity: http://www.coalitionforvotingintegrity.org Report incidents to The Brennan Center at NYU: http://www.brennancenter.org/ Report incidents like this to the National Lawyers Guild: http://nlg.org/

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"Another Scare Tactic". To get verification of the Law concerning the wearing of T-shirts, hats, or buttons.
Contact the Pennsylvania Bureau of Commissions, Elections & Legislation at: www.dos.state.pa.us/b

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