If this is all you wear you might get arrested, as well...............
Posted on 10/28/2016 1:03:11 PM PDT by EveningStar
Brett Bartlett Mauthe arrived at his Texas polling place Monday morning ready to vote.
It was the first day of early voting in Bulverde, a tiny town 30 minutes north of San Antonio.
On his head he wore a hat supporting GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, Mauthe told KSAT 12 News. His T-shirt read “basket of deplorables,” a reference to a comment Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton made about Trump’s supporters.
Mauthe was stopped before he could cast his ballot.
According to the election code, not just in Texas but in many other jurisdictions across the country, campaigning for or promoting a political candidate within a designated space around a polling place is prohibited. In Comal County, that’s 100 feet. The crime is electioneering, reported the New Braunfels Herald-Zeitung, a class C misdemeanor...
A Texas county switched briefly to paper ballots this week after voting machines flipped one woman’s straight Republican ballot to a vote for Clinton. A Facebook post about it went viral, fueling more concerns among Trump supporters.
But Shannon Lacked, elections administrator for that county, told CNN Thursday the ballot flip was not nefarious, and allegations of fraud are unfounded...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
You can’t wear Trump T-Shirts at a polling place. But you can simply wear Red.
If it doesn’t actually say “Trump” it should be OK.
“Make America Great Again” and “(I am) Deplorable” are NOT per se endorsing any particular candidate.
On that basis wearing the the stars and stripes could be seen as pushing a particular candidate. Trump was born in 1946. I can pull out a 100 year old dictionary a,d “Make” “America” “Great” “Again” and “Deplorable” are all to be found.
Both are campaign slogans for one candidate. No different that wearing a tee shirt with Hillary's weird arrow logo on it.
Hairsplitting aside, grown men and women don’t try to dress provocatively at a polling place.
I’m wearing a red T-shirt over my hoodie on Nov 8th.
It gets cold here in November.
Slippery slope.
If this is all you wear you might get arrested, as well...............
Nice lawsuit coming on.
In many states, anything clearly associated with a candidate is prohibited. This would include anything with the campaign’s slogan, logo, &c.
Agreed.
I’ve already used up my WaPo articles for the month, so I figure I’m ok saying that he must have been acting like a jerk to actually get arrested. I’ve worked polls a couple of times, and the very worst I’ve seen — once — was that a policeman who happened to be there at the same time told a complainer that he had to turn his shirt inside out. This guy had to have been more obnoxious than refusing to do that.
Yes, I'm afraid they are.
But the New Black Panthers intimidating outside a polling place is okay. Got it.
Saw a story on the local news the other night ... a voter had to turn his Texas Rangers shirt inside-out to vote. Not sure how a sports team affects the election one way or the other.
Good intentions aside, you can’t do that. Doesn’t matter who your voting for.
I know.
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