24-year-old Daniel Schmidt from Illinois has been arrested after allegedly causing a disturbance in a voting line before punching a 60-year-old election judge in the face, according to police. Orland Park police officers were dispatched over a call of “causing a disturbance in the voting line.”
Schmidt didn’t want to wait in line for his turn, so he tried to cut in front of other voters. That didn’t work out well for him.
ABC News reports:
“Officers on scene learned that Schmidt entered the township building and walked past numerous other voters waiting in line to enter the voting area,” the Orland Park Police Department said in a press release detailing the incident. “An election judge posted at the entrance told Schmidt to go to the back of the line and wait his turn, which Schmidt refused.”
Police said that another election judge was called at that point to help assist in the disturbance and
Schmidt was once again instructed to go to the back of the line, which Schmidt declined to do.
“Schmidt attempted to push past that election judge and was prevented from entering by that judge and several other employees,” authorities said. “Schmidt began to yell profanities and punched the election judge in the face, knocking their glasses off.”
Good samaritans intervened.
