‘F around and find out’: Philly DA says city set to handle Election Day concerns
“We are here on a very important day, before a very important election and we are here, more than anything, to speak about protection of an election, making sure that the election that occur tomorrow will be free, will be fair and it will be final,” [Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner] said.
He said that the task force, which, Krasner, a Democrat, noted was operating on a non-partisan basis – “We do not care who gets your vote. We care that you get to vote,” he promised – would be on the lookout for any election concerns throughout the day.
Though they don’t believe there will be issues, Krasner said the task force will be looking out for “people working in polls or close to polls who will bring frivolous challenges to voters.”
“Anybody who thinks they are going to play those games in Philadelphia, you’re going to do it in bad faith – I got no problem with doing it in good faith – but, if you’re going to do it in bad faith, there is an election court, there are judges, they have orders and, those orders are going to say, in essence, ‘get out of the polling places,’” he said. “Anybody who doesn’t get out, you’re going to be arrested.”
And, he warned that anyone who think it’s will be fun as they plan to interfere in Tuesday’s elections, they might find out otherwise.
“You can have your fun in a jail cell, cause that’s what’s coming,” he said.
In fact, Krasner took a moment to superficially warn anyone who has any plans to interfere with the city’s electoral process – like the two men who came to the city and were arrested after being found with weapons outside the Pennsylvania Convention Center when votes were being tallied there in 2020 – would simply ‘F around and find out.“
"Anybody who thinks it’s time to play militia, F around and find out. Anybody who thinks it’s time to insult, to deride, to mistreat, to threaten people, F around and find out,” said Krasner. “We do have the cuffs, we do have the jail cells, we do have the Philly juries and we have the state prisons. So, if you’re going to turn the election into some form of coercion, if you’re going to try to bully people, bully votes or voters, if you’re going to try to erase votes, if you’re going to try any of that nonsense, F around and find out.”
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