Report: Woman Wearing 'MIT' Shirt Barred from Voting in Florida

Weekly Standard ^ | November 6, 2012 | DANIEL HALPER

[ConservativeStatement]

A woman wearing an MIT t-shirt was barred from voting Florida, according to a local report. MIT stands for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, not Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.

"A woman attempting to vote in West Boca Raton this morning was initially prohibited from entering the polling place because she was wearing a tee shirt with the letters MIT," BocaNewsNow.com reports.

[ConservativeStatement]

Good thing she didn't have B.O.

[GeronL]

In some places the poll workers are wearing Obama gear or SEIU gear

[beelzepug]

Let me guess about the party and the race/ethnicity of the objector.

[God luvs America]

i wore a t-shirt under my jacket when i went to vote this morning- it had a picture of Reagan then the word “HERO” underneath and a picture of obama and the word “ZERO” underneath...i was asked to button my jacket and conceal my shirt...

[I want the USA back]

0bama supporters can’t spell.

[Red Badger]

Boca Raton?....yeah, they are stupid.......................

[ErnBatavia]

Well, being as this was in Boca, and the shirt wearer probably originated in Mass., she was likely an 0bamao voter.

[Doogle]

an election supervisor at the polling place ultimately realized that MIT stands for “Massachusetts Institute of Technology” — a school where students tend to know how to spell

[autumnraine]

Boca Raton is COVERED IN Romney signs. Even on the clock tower.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

M.I.T. is an elite technical school — it attracts top students from everywhere. Engineering students tend to be a lot more conservative than liberal arts students. I’d downgrade your “probably” to a “possibly”.

[vetvetdoug]

I wore my FUBO shirt. Nobody said a thing.

[FewsOrange]

an election supervisor at the polling place ultimately realized that MIT stands for “Massachusetts Institute of Technology” — a school where students tend to know how to spell

Harvard students can't count, MIT students can't read

[FlingWingFlyer]

Poll workers should have to demonstrate that they can “fog” a mirror before allowing them to work there.

[reg45]

Engineering students tend to be a lot more conservative than liberal arts students because they have to work with the real world as opposed to dream fairy land.

[Surrounded_too]

Translate the name of the town, Please. Does it mean Rat Mouth?

[Red Badger]

Correct.......Boca Chica = Girl’s Mouth.........

[ConservativeStatement]

From yesterday:

http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2012/11/05/Fla-mayor-irked-by-poor-pronunciations/UPI-71371352151257/

BOCA RATON, Fla., Nov. 5 (UPI) — The mayor of Boca Raton, Fla., says her desire to hear people properly pronounce her city’s name may lead to slapping an “e” at the end.

Boca Raton Mayor Susan Whelchel said she cringes when she hears someone pronounce “Raton” as if it rhymes with “baton” instead of “ra-tone,” the South Florida Sun Sentinel reported Monday. An ordinance in 1982 attempting to halt the mispronunciations failed to pass.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

Yep. Also, the math requires mental discipline — OTOH, Post Modern literary criticism (for instance) requires a certain level of detachment from reality. Actually, it requires a complete denial of the concept of “reality”.

[reg45]

MIT stands for “Massachusetts Institute of Technology” — a school where students tend to know how to spell and how to build lasers that can vaporize idiots.

[Momaw Nadon]

She should have worn this version, the librats would have no clue:

[GeronL]

That was pretty funny

[I want the USA back]

But a huge mural promoting 0 is OK?

[eddie willers]

OK....I’ll bite. What’s that mean?

[eddie willers]

OK....I’ll bite. What’s that mean?

[Usagi_yo]

Somewhat true, Somewhat true, not true, but I’ll take Cal Tech over MIT.

[maggief]

I hope it was red. (I made sure I wore red to the polls today.)

[libbylu]

I guess it is a law, you can’t vote with a candidate T shirt here in FL.

[MHGinTN]

Here’s a clue, Eddie: the first is a re-write of Einstein’s famous equation, as ‘find M=’. The expressions each find a letter, the first being “M”

[Lonely Bull]

OK....I’ll bite. What’s that mean?

E = Mc²
E/c² = M

the best-known imaginary number, "the square root of -1," is represented by "i"

Ideal gas law in equation form: PV=nRT [where T means temperature]
PV = nRT
PV/nR = T

Therefore this is obviously a Mit Romney dog whistle, and no one should wear it anywhere near a polling place. For one thing, it will clash with the Obama mural.

[Sigurdrifta]

I always knew there was a reason why I turned Hahvard down, and went to MIT instead, :)

[eddie willers]

Here’s a clue, Eddie: the first is a re-write of Einstein’s famous equation, as ‘find M=’. The expressions each find a letter, the first being “M”

I am a victim of the "New Math" they tried to cram down our throats in the early 60's. I went from "A"s in math to never better than a C almost all the way through college. I was hopelessly behind until they started letting us use electronic calculators.

[Momaw Nadon]

Lonely Bull got it correct.

[wastedyears]

It was the person working the polls that couldn’t read.

[Frank_2001]

Obama probably thinks the ideal gas is found inside a bong pipe/s;)

[certrtwngnut]

I wore A Tea Party t-shirt at 07:30 when we voted.
I still have it on.

[carumba]

That is an all American t-shirt.

[Lonely Bull]

Obama probably thinks the ideal gas is found inside a bong pipe/s;)

Oh, that's ChoOhm's Law.

[Fai Mao]

My Chinese wife had and MIT shirt. She said it means “Made in Taiwan”

[Chong]

Boka Ra-Toe-Ne!

[publius911]

I would refuse to remove the tee shirt and challenge the poll worker for stupidity.
Follow that up to investigate the system, and whether a******s accepted for polling work have a minimum IQ of 70.

Further, the DOs and DON'Ts of legal behavior should be prominently posted in EVERY FREAKING POLLING PLACE!