at Francie's Bar in Des Moines, Iowa Saturday, Oct. 30, 2004.
Posted on 10/30/2004 10:39:13 PM PDT by Lloyd227
Ga. Voter Arrested for Wearing Costume
GAINESVILLE, Ga. - A man wearing a John Kerry (news - web sites) T-shirt and President Bush (news - web sites) mask at an election office was charged with disorderly conduct for breaking a law that bans campaigning outside polling places, police said.
Kevin Dodds also was charged with the seldom-invoked crime of wearing a mask. A Georgia law aimed at the Ku Klux Klan makes it illegal to wear masks except on "holidays and special occasions."
The case started Friday, the last day of Georgia's early voting period, when Dodds' wife went to vote accompanied by an infant wearing a Kerry-Edwards shirt. Poll workers asked the woman to turn the child's shirt inside out so she could remain and vote, but she allegedly refused and left.
Later that day, Kevin Dodds went to the polling place saying he wanted to protest the objection to the baby's shirt. A police report said Dodds stood outside screaming, sometimes using foul language, and refused requests to take off his mask.
When Dodds, 35, was arrested, he "reeked of alcohol," said police Sgt. Chris Robinson.
Poll workers didn't get his wife's name. A phone call to a listing for Kevin and Susan Dodds was not immediately returned.
State law prohibits campaigning within 150 feet of a polling site. Signs outside polling places explain the law, which even bans voters from wearing stickers promoting a candidate.
All the charges are misdemeanors, punishable by up to a year in jail and a $1,000 fine.
What else needs to be said?
Just damn....
A pickled brain and he wants to politic at a polling location. Pitty the poor child growing up with such parents.
In many states it's an added charge for any crime (armed robbery while wearing a mask, assault and battery while wearing a mask, etc).
Yep, that's a Democrat alright.
Sounds like a VWI to me. Voting while Intoxicated.
Maybe he should move to NYC where I live and have to put up with `Rats every election year campaigning not only right by the entrance of the polling place, but also INSIDE the polling place. Last election they were even handing out free sodas with every pamphlet of Algore. This year I`m bringing my camera for all Freepers to see for themsleves. Don`t know why they do it, I mean it`s not like Bush is going to win anyway in a city that is demented enough to vote for Hitlery Clinton.
File this story under: Freewill freely willed.
We went to our school's Fall festival today. My nine year old daughter had the face painter put "Go Bush!" on her face. : )
I guess I have to get that off by Tuesday, when I take all four of my kids to the GA polls. Heeheehee
at Francie's Bar in Des Moines, Iowa Saturday, Oct. 30, 2004.
He can't even drink a beer without looking like a dork.
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