Posted on 11/02/2004 5:07:56 AM PST by rightsmart
Please excuse my first-time post that is also a vanity. I am the principal of a christian school that is also a polling place. Moveon.org has set-up a sign on our property with a representative. When I went over to talk with the gentlement to find out what he was doing, he told me that he was "checking off names" of people who promised to vote so that they would stop calling these people. He set up over 100 feet from the polling place, but it is on our property.
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What a wonderful idea! At the very least, it gives the reader a chance to spend time in God's word. At best, it gives us a chance to convert someone from Satan's grasp.
Semper Fi
Much as I hate moveon and all it stands for, what this guy's doing has purpose. It's a classic example of precinct politics that I often use myself. Once I've identified voters in my precinct who have expressed support for my candidates, I keep them on my "plus" list.
On election day I get a pollwatcher credential and check in periodicaaly with the judges to match my "plus" list with those who have shown up to vote. As the day moves along, I will start calling those on my "plus" list who have not shown up. Obviously I will not waste my time those who have already voted.
I admit, I am a bit of a briuser trapped inside a conservative Republican's body! :-)
I can't believe the people saying that they are tresspassing on private property....you opened up your private property to the public...so if they are the required distance from the polling area, they are not tresspassing. Good grief...has the election fried everyone's brains?
I am a Florida voter and MoveOn was out in front of my polling place offering cookies. A friend of mine said they were out in front of his also.
Be nice, but tell him the school is PRIVATE PROPERTY.
They may respond saying that there is a public easement and so they have the right to be there.
Tell them the public easement extends to public right-of-way traffic and not for any purpose that THEY choose, including electioneering. Since they're moveon scum they probably wont respond to issue of law and a polite request. Then call the cops
Don't post that again.
Yes, but you are not standing outside the polling place asking people for their names, are you?
And if he had a pollwatcher credential as you did, he wouldn't have to stand outside, would he?
Nah, either they're remarkably inefficient or something else is up.
If you allow your private property to be accessed by the public via a realtor's open house, should someone be allowed to come and set up a lemonade stand in the yard?
It just seems to me that if they opened up the private school to the public for a specific purpose, they should legitimately be able to limit access for that specific purpose only.
Beginning to wonder of anyone was home.
LOL. Let the rug rats have at 'em!
(Minn)204C.06 Conduct in and near polling places.
Subdivision 1. Lingering near polling place. An individual shall be allowed to go to and from the polling place for the purpose of voting without unlawful interference. No one except an election official or an individual who is waiting to register or to vote shall stand within 100 feet of the entrance to a polling place. The entrance to a polling place is the doorway or point of entry leading into the room or area where voting is occurring.
You opened up your school to be a polling place, so, IMO, you abide by the "polling place" rules and lose your "private property" rights as long as you are a polling place.
That has been my expierence too.
(Malorganite is fertilizer made from human waste.)
If you are going to be a polling place, you have made your property basically into public property for the day.
If there is a question about the legality of what the man is doing, a call to the local authority should sort that out. If he is there illegally, let the police deal with it. While calling people names may be personally satisfying, how you behave on election day at the polls reflects on Bush and Republicans in general. I would appreciate it if your behavior did not make me look bad.
It would be interesting to see how many people on the Moveon list are voting from different addresses and have the same phone number.
"Brown shirt" is name calling, and in this context IS asking for trouble. Challenging on issues and facts is not name calling, however, on election day in front of a polling place is not the time to do it.
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