Carry on!
Posted on 11/07/2014 10:12:36 PM PST by Daffynition
Poll monitors in Haddam, CT attempt to turn away Andrew Krzeminski and his brother on 11/4/2014 while attempting to vote with a CCDL shirt on. State police officer is called. Camera protects the voter's rights.
(Excerpt) Read more at videoify.me ...
Carry on!
As a former poll worker, I have seen things like this happen on several occasions. I protested to the senior poll worker and was told that, after all, it was just one vote. After several polling cycles of this crap, I quit as a poll worker.
If he was wearing GLBT shirt that old liberal witch would have thrown flowers in his path!
Voting is not a right in the strict sense of the word. It is a privilege granted under certain conditions. We’ve obviously lowered the bar too far in that respect. Voter’s ought to be able to pass a basic citizenship test before entering the voting booth, and the first question on the test ought to be: “When does human life begin.”
FWIW: A lady wearing a *MIT* t-shirt was delayed in Boca . Did they think it was a Mitt Romney T? LOL
Congrats.
No argument from me. Any shirt, t-shirt or ball cap suggesting anything political are banned in my state, yet often ignored ... nobody has the guts to enforce the ban.
Once had a person vote with Union pins all over his sweatshirt, in an election heavy on union propositions, when I protested, I was told to be quite.
On another occasion, say someone vote using only his passport, when I question the official, I was told that he was satisfied and to mind my own business.
I no longer work as a poll worker.
I think voting is both a privilege and a right. It’s shameful, almost half of eligible voters choose to stay away.
I also think this CCDL member was pushing the envelope, to make his point. I understand his frustration with this state and the unconstitutional/draconian laws we have.
Self-governance does not work unless certain standards are met. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness do not need votes to be established, but they need votes to be secured. Those votes should be performed by people who understand what self-governance means. We throw it open to people who can barely think or read. This is not good.
Just as there are right and wrong answers when it comes to how we drive on our roads, there are right and wrong answers when it comes to being a citizen of the United States of America. How many generations have passed since we emphasized these things? Liberals would milk us dry with their hue and cry over education, but when was the last time they hankered for education as to what it means to be self-governing and virtuous at the same time? I am afraid to guess how few of this week’s voters would be able to iterate what would change in the event they renounced their US citizenship.
This election was no different than the one in ‘12, in that at my polling place, the neighborhood imbecile (I mean that in the clinical sense, I understand that this man suffered a disabling injury and probably isn’t all there mentally, perhaps he’s at the moron level) was first in line to vote. As he did last time, he joked openly about vote fraud. Last time it was “vote early, and vote often” (said with a laugh). This time he joked with a poll worker about the dead voting. They humor him because, I suppose, it would be rude to question his mental capacity. Perhaps it’s a front. Still he votes. It’s upsetting to share the line with him, because at that hour of the day, the people showing up are sober, poised, and serious about the task set before them. No one is in line to make small talk.
This is stupid. If someone is wearing something that advocates specifically for a candidate or a proposition - then fine. Wearing any other clothing should be a non-issue.
Dittos.
This is similar to the HS kids who wear a US flag T or Confederate flag T and cause a ruckus.
It’s a fine line to playing hard ball and setting your *cause* back a few decades. E.g. open-carry is allowed in our state and caused quite a kerfuffle here when it was challenged in court by a licensed pistol owner who was reported to the police when a waitress *saw* his holstered gun. One of the reasons I don’t open-carry in Connecticut, is to avoid all the trouble it would cause.....although I can.
If you had a chance to watch the whole video, it took the trooper a few minutes to gain his composure [I think he was genuinely caught off guard] to allow the filming to continue.
**This is stupid.**
This is Connecticut.
Known as the *Constitution State*. Heh.
Thanks for the link ‘Sniper!
Need voter ID cards with picture not clothing checks..
Yes. I aimed for a wider subject, however. “Right to vote” has been abused. There is such confusion these days over the difference between rights and privileges. Not even a good many lawyers know the difference. People who don’t know the difference should not be voting.
When does human life begin?
What is the difference between a right and a privilege?
What is the difference between a Citizen of the United States and a citizen of the world?
Voters should know this, and if they don’t, they should be denied the privilege of voting.
She was delayed for wearing a shirt with M. I. T. ? When did this happen, 2012 or 2014? Either year, that reaction would not surprise me. Remember teachers almost throwing students out of their classroom s if the student was pro-Mitt or anti-Obama? I vividly recall those times. I thought maybe I had awoken in Venezuela or Cuba.
From the link: November 6, 2012
http://bocanewsnow.com/2012/11/06/woman-wearing-mit-shirt-banned-from-voting-in-boca-raton/
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