Voter Intimidation at Polls in Middletown?

Reports of an unidentified man putting up posters with erroneous information at the city's 1st District voting location on Election Day prompted poll workers to call Middletown Police, according to a Hartford Advocate story by Gregory B. Hladky.

"Republican Registrar of Voters Janice Gionfriddo says a man tried to put up posters at a Middletown polling place warning that voters without photo IDs wouldn’t be allowed to vote," the article states.

Connecticut law doesn’t require photo identification for voters. Poll workers at Macdonough Elementary School on Tuesday had a confrontation with the man when they tried to remove his posters, Hladky writes.

Gov. Daniel P. Malloy signed House Bill No. 5022, also known as “An Act Increasing Penalties for Voter Intimidation," (see pdf attached) on June 15.

Mid-morning on Election Day, the lone Democratic supporter who held a giant vertical placard with Obama, Murphy, Doyle, DeLauro and Lesser signs was stationed on Pease Avenue, across from the rear entrance of the school.

Four of the five blue Linda McMahon signs had been lain down in the grass bordering the elementary school. It's unclear if someone from the registar's office or a political objector moved them.