Electioneering is not allowed at an active voting station.
A shirt with “Vote ‘Anything at all’” on it, won’t be allowed. It shouldn’t be.
Spread the word far and wide all you like prior to voting.
My daughter wore her Romney Tee shirt to early voting Saturday and nobody said a thing.............
PHOENIX — A federal judge has ordered that Coconino County reisdents be allowed to wear Tea Party T-shirts when they vote next month.
But what happens elsewhere at polling places in Arizona remains in legal limbo. And it still leaves in question whether such attire is proper.
The order by U.S. District Court Judge James Teilborg specifically bars Coconino County Recorder Candace Owens or any of her election workers from blocking Diane Wickberg from voting while attired in her shirt proclaiming “Flagstaff Tea Party — Reclaiming Our Constitution Now.’’ Anyone else with the same shirt also cannot be barred from going to vote on Nov. 2.
Diane Cohen, an attorney for the Goldwater Institute which represents Wickberg, said the injunction is a preliminary victory. She said the fact the ruling legally affects only Coconino County does not mean election officials elsewhere are free to impose their own election-day clothing decisions.
http://www.yourwestvalley.com/valleyandstate/article_179fa950-dd77-11df-8815-001cc4c03286.html
2. Content based Restrictions on Speech Permissible
Although content-based regulation of political speech in schools has been found
to be impermissible, polling places are treated differently by the Supreme Court. Due to
the long tradition of free and fair elections in this county, Americans accept and
understand that some restriction on speech on election day is important. Courts and the
American public generally agree that campaign activities can and should be regulated. In Burson v. Freeman,100 the U. S. Supreme Court held that states may reasonably regulate
the content of speech and the extent to which someone may engage in campaign activities
in the area immediately surrounding a polling place. However, the Court has never
explicitly determined whether a state may regulate the political materials worn by a voter
in a polling place.
See post #26, DO.