Posted on 10/25/2020 9:02:25 AM PDT by USA Conservative
In the first day of early voting with the line stretching blocks outside the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections, Democratic vice presidential hopeful Kamala Harris stopped by to thank early voters.
Harris, who made several campaign stops around Northeast Ohio on Saturday before a scheduled voter mobilization speech later in the afternoon, made an unexpected trip to the downtown office, the only early voting site that serves the 1.2 million people in the county.
“Thank you for voting and voting early,” Harris said to the crowd, most of whom cheered. “Your vote is your voice, your voice is your vote. There is so much at stake. Don’t let anyone ever take your power. The power of your voice is so important. You are going to make the difference.”
“You are going to make the decision about your future, about your family’s future,” Harris continued. “It is through the voice of your vote. And you have the power — the power is with the people. And you know that. That’s why you’re standing in this line today, and I just came to say thank you. Thank you, Cleveland.”
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There is one problem Electioneering is prohibited in every state in America. Now did she broke the rules? Every state has a law creating campaign-free buffer zones outside of polling places — laws the Supreme Court has long upheld.
CAN PEOPLE CAMPAIGN IN OR AROUND THE POLLING PLACE?
Campaigning is not allowed inside a polling place. Campaigning may be permitted outside the polling place –at a certain distance from the polls. Some states prohibit campaigning within 200 feet of the entrance a polling place (Alaska); others permit campaigning up to 30 feet from the entrance (Alabama).
In Ohio campaigning, displaying campaign material, or distributing food inside of the neutral zone of a polling location is prohibited. Nothing in Ohio’s election laws prohibit a person or entity from campaigning, displaying campaign material, or distributing food outside of the neutral zone of a polling location (i.e., outside of the flags marking the 100-foot barrier or beyond 10 feet from any Precinct.
Each polling location and its surrounding area is a neutral zone. Campaigning is part of the political process, but it is prohibited in each polling location and within 100 feet of the entrance to a polling location or within 10 feet of voters waiting in line, if the line extends past the 100-foot boundary. Voters must be free to vote without pressure from candidates, campaigns, precinct election officials, or fellow voters – even if those fellow voters are friends or family.
Ohio’s voting rules don’t mention anything if politicians using microphones, wondering if the microphone changes things?
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She just wants to prove how worthless she is even Obama can’t draw a crowd.
It the voters are willing to stand in a line, it means they are voting for Trump.
Gee, everyone I know from Cleveland thinks she’s a nutcase alien.
Maybe she mistook the laughing for cheers.
Democrat privilege. She can do whatever she wants.
“Her only chance of pulling a crowd.”
Next she’ll be on the diamond at the 7th inning stretch. Then, it’s off to a 5 mile back up on 95.
Poor Kamala.....she has to seek out voting lines in order to find a crowd.
LOL!!
TRUMP is going to WIN!
Oh, those pesky laws... Clearly, never meant for Democrats.
There were huge signs outside of my polling place indicating that campaigning within a certain number of feet was prohibited.
It seems to me that using a microphone is a way to subvert the law and thus illegal.
I actually tried to vote at the Board of Elections Friday, but the line was insane. It may have been about the time she was there.
I’m concerned about the early vote. It is heavy. I usually vote election day & rarely have an issue. There are few long lines at my poling location on election day.
The fact that a lot of people are waiting in downtown Cleveland to vote is crazy. It is also the only place to drop off absentee ballots without putting them in the mail.
I think so too. Only Trump generates that kind of enthusiasm.
I keep asking my husband to bet on the election; I say Trump in a landslide. He won’t take the bet.
Yesterday I was feeling grouchy and he wondered something about how Americans feel about Canada.
“Honestly Honey, Americans don’t think about Canada much at all.” I didn’t want to burst his bubble but “it is what it is.” That’s just how crabby I was. LOL!
The fact that a lot of people are waiting in downtown Cleveland to vote is crazy.
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What conclusions are you drawing from your experience there?
If it is a landslide do you think that Biden may actually concede on election night?
No Democrat has conceded the presidential election on election night since the 1980s.
I think so too. Only Trump generates that kind of enthusiasm.
I keep asking my husband to bet on the election; I say Trump in a landslide. He won’t take the bet.
Yesterday I was feeling grouchy and he wondered something about how Americans feel about Canada.
“Honestly Honey, Americans don’t think about Canada much at all.” I didn’t want to burst his bubble but “it is what it is.” That’s just how crabby I was. LOL!
While I normally would object to a candidate giving a speech in front of a line of voters I’m okay with this. Kamala probably switched several hundred votes over to Trump with that horrifying screechy voice of hers.
“No Democrat has conceded the presidential election on election night since the 1980s.”
Hey, that’s right. The last two Dem losers did not concede on Election night, but Hillary did the next day, correct?
Unfortunately you are right. They won’t concede; they will fight it tooth and nail until the bitter end.
Bush v. Gore will look like a playground scuffle.
If there is a landslide, no amount of court appeals will change the outcome.
But if they can keep 3-5 states “in play” to deny Trump the electoral vote tally on election night, they will.
Pennsylvania will be one of them.
Hillary/staff conceded the 2016 election the following day.
My recall is that Kerry conceded the 2004 election 3 days later.
And in 1960 Richard Nixon let JFK steal the White House because he didn’t want to take the nation down the path of a long drawn out battle in the courts over ballots and fraud.
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