Posted on 11/01/2010 11:39:00 AM PDT by maine yankee
Maine poll warden told to stay home Election Day November 01, 2010 13:46 EDT BANGOR, Maine (AP) -- A longtime Maine election warden has been asked to stay home on Election Day after refusing to let a uniformed, armed Bangor police officer vote because he wouldn't hand over his gun in the polling place.
Bangor City Clerk Patti Dubois said Monday that Wayne Mallar won't be working the polls Tuesday. According to the Bangor Daily News, Dubois also planned to apologize to Officer James Dearing and ensure that he has another chance to vote.
Officials said Mallar refused to let Dearing cast an early vote at the Bangor Civic Center on Friday unless he turned over his service revolver to another officer. Dearing refused and left without voting.
Police Chief Ron Gastia says officers have always been allowed to vote in uniform -- armed or unarmed.
(Excerpt) Read more at wgme.com ...
The election warden is an idiot.
Do you reckon Mr. Mallar might just be a democrat?
The law is irrelevant. Only the “feelings” matter.
That officer would be acting in a very unsafe manner if he handed his service revolver over to someone at the polls to hold while he voted.
Why would the poll warden think it would be better if an untrained/unsworn individual were to hold the gun rather than the officer?
Lefties are completely brain dead.
Relevant Maine Statute is apparently Title 21-A. http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/statutes/21-A/title21-Ach0sec0.html
No such prohibition.
Chapt 9, 2, 2, §662. Warden is the closest anything comes to giving him power to kick someone out of the poling place.
"2. Order at voting place. He shall keep order at all times in and around the voting place. He shall direct that any person who creates a disturbance or otherwise violates the law at the voting place be removed from it and, if necessary, confined until the polls are closed.
A. On request of the warden, a peace officer shall remove, confine or arrest a person who creates a disturbance or otherwise violates the law at a voting place.
[1985, c. 161, §6 (NEW).] [ 1985, c. 161, §6 (NEW) .]"
No legal leg to stand on unless said officer was creating a scene.
At least read the post before posting.
Fair enough.
I still think this guy was a first class jackass. His phobia of guns reveals who he truly is, what side he’s humping for.
So while I was wrong to attribute his desire improperly, he is still open to strident ridicule for his idiocy.
The legislature can choose to accept ballots from a particular jurisdiction or not. This was last used in 2006 and 8 to reject Republican votes which would have given the Republicans control of the house.
Union with Nova Scotia!
It is obvious that you are unaware that the Canadian federal government is the main employer of Nova Scotians, and that the main department that Nova Scotians are responsible for is THE GUN REGISTRY.
Are you quite so hot to secede from the Land of the Free, to join the Home of the Slaves?
This just made drudge
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This total idiot actually thought he had the authority to disarm a police officer in uniform?
He should have been banned for life!
How would you like to spend the rest of your life being pointed to and accused of being the total idiot who tried to prevent a police officer in uniform from voting?
Actually, the vetting of these voting "officials" is scary...
A bit curious to know if this officer was on or off duty?
All the officer needed to do was say, “if you touch my gun, Im arresting you. and if you try and keep me from voting, Ill see you arrested for civil rights violations.”
I’ll be voting tomorrow, as you’d expect.
My CCW legal USPc will be on my right hip, which is normal when I’ve got to be out of range of one of the carbines.
Don’t much care what the election “workers” think about it, but concealed means that they won’t know anyway...
Why?
While I see no reason anyone should not be armed when they go to a polling place.. what’s good enough for regular citizens should be good enough for public “servants”. Unless of course your position is they are not public servants but persons holding a special status.
I think you wrong about this.
W
Some readers have questioned whether Dearing should have voted while on duty. According to Dunlap, Maine is not among the 30 states that have laws requiring employees to give workers time off to vote, which means many people vote on work time.
“I see no problem with an officer voting while on duty, while in uniform and while armed. It’s been a history to allow police officers on duty to vote when it’s appropriate,” Gastia said. “As far as relinquishing a firearm, an officer is trained never to relinquish a firearm to anyone.”
As for Dearing, he said Monday that he planned to vote sometime Tuesday during his shift.
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