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Woman pulls off Bush T-shirt to comply with rules, cast vote
Herald Tribune ^

Posted on 11/09/2004 9:07:07 AM PST by NYer

JEFFERSON, La. --

She'd already signed the precinct register when an election worker said her Bush-Cheney T-shirt amounted to illegal electioneering. So Debbie Dupeire pulled it off.

Dupeire, who voted in a sports bra, exercise pants and flip-flops, said she was afraid she would lose her chance to vote if she left to turn her shirt inside-out: the elections workers might not remember her, or might be away on break when she returned.

"I really thought it was OK to wear my shirt. I didn't go there to cause trouble," said Debbie Dupeire, a 38-year-old makeup artist from Jefferson who said she always votes.

Under state law, candidates' names cannot be displayed within 500 feet of a polling place.

Jefferson Parish Registrar of Voters Dennis DiMarco said he wished someone had seen Dupeire's shirt as soon as she came in, and told her then.

Veteran poll commissioner Dorothy Angelico - one of two female commissioners who broke the news to Dupeire - said the T-shirt wasn't spotted sooner because she and other commissioners were overwhelmed by the number of voters in the crowded space they share with two other precincts.

"I'm 80 years old ... and I've never seen anything like it," Angelico said Friday, still chuckling about Dupeire's quick decision to get down to basics and vote. "It happened so fast, I don't think my husband and the other male commissioner even saw it happen."

Dupeire said she understood the request and is not angry, but thinks Jefferson Parish may need more poll workers.

"I'd been in line wearing the shirt for 15 minutes, and no one said anything until I was about to vote," said Dupeire. "Had they told me before I signed the book, I would have gone out and turned my shirt wrong-side out.

"But I wasn't going to leave after signing because I would have had no proof that I hadn't voted. I just did the fastest thing I could do to vote."


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To: YouPosting2Me

Exercise your right to bare ??? ....


41 posted on 11/09/2004 9:48:54 AM PST by NCjim
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To: NYer

If she were a Kerry lover, she probably would be considered sex-crazed and demon-possessed.


42 posted on 11/09/2004 9:58:58 AM PST by stuartcr
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To: Piranha
She's from Louisiana. Did she get any beads?

Puppies!

43 posted on 11/09/2004 10:01:44 AM PST by Hank Rearden (Never allow anyone who could only get a government job attempt to tell you how to run your life.)
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To: NYer

My kinda woman!


44 posted on 11/09/2004 10:06:40 AM PST by Chieftain (Thank you Swift Boat Veterans/POWs/Vietnam Veterans for Truth - you did it for ALL your brothers!)
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To: icecold
here's her pic

Her's or his? Yuck!

45 posted on 11/09/2004 10:10:55 AM PST by Go Gordon (US Armed Forces in Iraq are kicking a$$ and taking hyphenated names)
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To: Cathryn Crawford

Depends on the person... Some people would chase the other voters away...


46 posted on 11/09/2004 10:11:19 AM PST by sixstringer
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To: martin_fierro
I'm not a genius, but she ain't 38 years old.
47 posted on 11/09/2004 10:12:38 AM PST by Preachin' (Where is Murrymom?)
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To: NYer

Massive fraud in every state of the Union, but the proper decorum must be observed. Suits and ties are required, sir, at this bordello!


48 posted on 11/09/2004 10:15:13 AM PST by Revolting cat! ("In the end, nothing explains anything!")
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To: jimfree

Still happens, at least as recently as 2001. The cops aren't too uptight about it.


49 posted on 11/09/2004 10:16:56 AM PST by calenel (The Democratic Party is the Socialist Mafia. It is a Criminal Enterprise.)
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To: NYer
If she had a swimsuit top on underneath the t-shirt, this wouldn't have been a story.
50 posted on 11/09/2004 10:17:39 AM PST by fso301
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To: NYer

Great for her! She was willing to give the shirt off her back to get Bush back in office.


51 posted on 11/09/2004 10:18:26 AM PST by CMOTB (I voted, I promoted, now I am a happy Republican.)
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To: Spook86

In Greene County next door to Montgomery, I stood behind a woman with a "W 04" shirt. I was not offended.


52 posted on 11/09/2004 10:19:54 AM PST by OrioleFan (Republicans believe every day is July 4th, DemocRATs believe every day is April 15th. - Reagan)
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To: fso301

And a sports bra probably covers more. After having my kids I got very comfortable with my body. Being seen in my bra doesn't embarrass me any more. Gee, I actually became liberal in one area of my life over time!


53 posted on 11/09/2004 10:23:04 AM PST by TXBubba ( Democrats: If they don't abort you then they will tax you to death.)
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To: martin_fierro

Or perhaps busts for Bush.....


54 posted on 11/09/2004 10:23:12 AM PST by roaddog727 (The marginal propensity to save is 1 minus the marginal propensity to consume.)
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