DemoRat Poll Workers Forcing Republican Voters to Strip In Order to Vote!

Calblog ^ | 10-7

[ambrose]

I just returned from voting where I was harassed by a poll worker.

Today I entered my polling place and the poll worker told me I had to take off my shirt. It was perfectly obvious that I didn't have anything on under my shirt but a bra. I said are you serious. He said yes, you can't wear that, it's electioneering. I said it's a shirt. He said I don't care, you can't wear it in this garage - take it off. I said I don't have anything else to wear. He said I don't care - take it off. Another poll worker went inside her house to get a blanket that I could wrap around myself to vote. I voted, crying the whole time. I came out and gave him my ballot. I told him I had never before had an unpleasant experience voting but that he was a real jerk. With a stupid grin on his face, he said you can call the election office. I said I will. I did.

I've also called both Arnold's and Ted Costa's organizations and told them about the incident to see if they want to take any legal action. I'll get over it, but it's important that over-zealous poll workers don't prevent our volunteers from getting out the vote this afternoon and evening. If by harassing me they are prevented from harassing our other volunteers, I won't mind.

[rface]

what did your shirt say?

[conservativeinbflo.]

And you *actually* took your shirt off? Are you nuts? is this story true?

I woulda told the guy to go shove it where the sun don't shine, among other obscenities.

[ambrose]

This didn't happen to me. Look at the source/link above.

[mystery-ak]

So what did your tee-shirt say?

[GoGophers]

Did your shirt have political content (i.e., pro-Arnold or anti-Davis)? If so, then they had the right to prevent you from entering the polling area wearing the shirt.

[Vladivostok]

If only you'd known in advance, you could have used a couple of Arnold buttons as pasties and pulled the shirt off as he asked, then dared him to try and take your buttons :-)

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[ambrose]

This did not happen to *ME*. I am posting from someone else's blog. See above source/link...

[ex-Texan]

Well, perhaps you should have written "Go Arnold" or "Dump Davis" on your chest . . . LOL, LOL, LOL !

[camle]

if your shirt said anything about any of the candidates, or the election, they are required to prevent you from coming within a specified distance of the polling place. one should never wear campaign items to vote. you should know better.

[Quilla]

Well, so what did your shirt say?

Just kidding bump.

[GoGophers]

Oops! Sorry.

[Godzilla]

Should have slapped him clean into next week.

[conservativeinbflo.]

Well.
The bit is a tad misleading.
Makes it sound like it was you. Should've put that in your comments.

[Sabertooth]

Did your shirt have political content (i.e., pro-Arnold or anti-Davis)? If so, then they had the right to prevent you from entering the polling area wearing the shirt.

Legal responsibility, actually. Electioneering is forbidden within some number of feet of the polls. 500, I think.

[noexcuses]

This is ridiculous. If the t-shirt had a political statement on it, the wearer could have just turned it wrong side out to vote. I don't buy this story at all.

[pogo101]

Does anyone here know the law? I know that "electioneering" isn't permitted within a certain radius of a polling place, but does wearing a logo shirt -- without speaking to anyone about the issues, and while simply marching in, waiting in line, voting and promptly leaving (as opposed to, hanging around the area so that people are exposed to your shirt's logo for an extra period of time) -- constitute "electioneering"?

[GoGophers]

Should have slapped him clean into next week.

And gone to jail for assault and battery

[Ditto]

If only you'd known in advance, you could have used a couple of Arnold buttons as pasties...

Ouch!