A judge in Philadelphia ordered poll workers to cover up a mural depicting President Obama at a school in Philadelphia on Tuesday, after a photograph posted on Twitter, showing voting machines set up in front of the president's image, spread rapidly across the social network.
Valerie Caras, the communications director for the Republican Party of Pennsylvania, drew attention to the image, taken by one of the party's volunteer election monitors at the polling place for Philadelphia's 5th Ward, 18th Division, inside the Benjamin Franklin Elementary School.
PHOTO: talk about #demshenanigans and electioneering in the polling place. HUGE Obama mural in Philly polling place-35W http://t.co/3Rs4P8hF
- Valerie Caras (@ValerieCaras) 6 Nov 12
Just an hour later, a spokesman for the Republican National Committee, Tim Miller, posted an image on his Twitter feed, showing the order to ha ve the mural covered up, which was issued by John Milton Younge, a Democrat.
Update: Election Judge in PA has ordered Obama mural in polling place covered up. Order here â€"> http://t.co/bcCgpNbo
- Tim Miller (@Timodc) 6 Nov 12
The mural on the wall of the elementary school appeared to pay tribute to President Obama's 2008 campaign, featuring the words “hope†and “change,†on either side of his image, and a quote from a speech he gave during the Democratic primary campaign that year, on Feb. 5, 2008, in which he said: “Change will not come if we wait for some other person or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.â€
