Cherelle Parker Accused of Election Impropriety. Is this a surprise,? No, especially not when Coupled with Our DA's Own Impropriety

Once again, the city of Philadelphia receives a black eye. Cherelle Parker won in a landslide victory on Tuesday Night, but not without cheating. For years people have cheated in the Number 1 Fraud City in America and the new State Representative from the 200th legislative District is no different. It is about time the Committee of Seventy, under the new leadership of Zachary Stalberg, got off their tails and made a stink about this. Lets hope this doesn't go away. Some may look and say, "She only brought lunch" or "she only stopped in to say,'hi'". This is not the point. She violated the Election Code. But no one is going to care, tomorrow this will be an afterthought and she will do the same thing next November.

The article even says that the DA's office will look into the complaint. We all know that that is not going to happen. When they were giving awayt free cheese, she was supposed to look into that incident. Well, guess what, after looking at the numbers received from the City Commissioners office, she did not looks into because she wins big in fraud areas. The Democrats in the 35th Ward 20th Division tried to lure voters with cheese and DA Abraham was supposed to look into it. Nevertheless, she has failed to do so maybe because she won that division over Seth Williams with 76% of the vote (this is a housing project) when she only won this division in 2001 over Talmadge by 9 votes however the division right next door 35-20 she only by 1 vote. Why would she want to look into the free cheese it helped out. Also, a major problem in this city is voting in bars and she has the power to step in bc it is illegal and order that polling place moved, but in the 1st ward 6th division she received 84% of the vote (43-9). Also another illegal polling place is the one in Sen. Fumo's office, of course she doesn't want to step in and change that she won that division by 85% of the vote (56-10). It appears Ms Abraham is part of the problem not the solution. The polling place which was house in a bar in the 48th ward 4th division was changed before this Primary after the change she won the division by 2 votes whereas in 2001 she lost this division by 23 votes....

So anyway, Cherelle Parker, congrats on being elected to the State House, even if you did have to do it the old fashioned way.
The Following is the text of the article courtesy of the Daily News...
Accusations of election impropriety spoil Parker's celebration
By DAVE DAVIES
daviesd@phillynews.com
Cherelle Parker had a rough first day as a state representative-elect yesterday.
Within 24 hours of her landslide win in a special election in Northwest Philadelphia, the watchdog group Committee of Seventy announced it has referred several alleged election code violations by Parker to the District Attorney's office.
In a three-page statement issued late yesterday, Committee of Seventy accused Parker of repeatedly entering polling places in violation of the state election code, and of buying lunch for election officials, creating "the appearance of impropriety."
Parker said if her actions violated the election code, it's news to her.
"I visited polling places throughout the 200th legislative district yesterday," Parker said in a telephone interview. "I know you can't engage in electioneering within 10 feet of the polling place, and I didn't."
"I went into polling places to make sure people got their lunch," Parker said. "My campaign bought lunch for committee people and election workers as is customary. It's been done for years. If that's a problem with the election code, that's not something I or my campaign was familiar with."
Committee of Seventy didn't cite the free lunch as a violation of law. But the group's policy director, Christopher Sheridan, said the election code prohibits anybody from entering polling places except voters, election workers and certified poll watchers.
The Committee of Seventy statement said Parker had entered polling places throughout the day even after her campaign was contacted by Committee of Seventy and the District Attorney's office.
"It was election day. There was a lot going on," Parker said. "I remember somebody saying something that you can't campaign in a polling place, but I wouldn't have thought twice about it, because I never do that."
The Committee of Seventy statement said the first time Parker was observed coming out of a polling place in Chestnut Hill, she told a staff member she had just finished voting and was going to visit other polling places.
The committee found that was not her polling place, which Sheridan said suggested she'd misled their staff. Parker said she never misled anyone.
"Someone may have misunderstood what I said," Parker said.
Spokeswoman Cathie Abookire of the District Attorney's office said the office would look into the complaint.