Voter Harassment: Officials Try to Prohibit Woman Wearing Pro-life Shirt From Voting [Wayne County]

witness account

[Notwithstanding]

Yesterday a woman had to call her attorney in order to vote. Election officials in a Wayne County precinct refused to let the woman vote because she was wearing a pro-life t-shirt. After her attorney explained the law, she was allowed to vote. Meanwhile, the attorney also convinced the officials to require union poll watchers (who were sitting on polling place premises wearing candidate t-shirts and parking their cars with candidate stickers on site) to move to another are and park their cars offsite.

[NB: The law prohibits any form of campaigning for individual candidates or specific ballot measures, but does NOT prohibit other first amendment activity such as wearing things like union, environmental or pro-life t-shirts or buttons]

[tophat9000]

I not trying to be mean or sound condescending if I came off that way I apologies

However you really got my curiosity up when you spoke of a voter registration card thinking I was missing something so I called the Los Angeles Registrar - Recorder/County Clerk

Per the Registrar - Recorder there is no voter registration card in California that functions as any kind of I.D. to vote

There is a one time postcard sent out when you first register just to confirm it and also any changes you might make but is meaningless at the polls

The Registrar – Recorder did say that people offen do hold on to the cards and sometimes it can be used as a kind of I.D. card ..but not to vote.

Again I not trying to be a pain but I do take voting seriously and ANYONE (like you reported)trying to prevent a registered voter from voting need to be reported to the Registrar – Recorder and that includes Republicans trying to stop Democrats

But if your Democrats friend (and any one else)is not sure of the voter status or polling place or a poll worker is giving them a hard time they needs to call there Registrar – Recorder... that postcard is just an a notification of a change of status on the voter rolls.