“In 2004, we had a poll watcher show up wearing 2 Kerry buttons and a Kerry hat. She stuck a Kerry lawn sign in the ground 6 feet from the polling place door and crossed her arms and just stared at us standing in line.”
Check with the laws in your state, but there’s probably a set distance from the polling place in which a person can campaign for a candidate. Clearly the “poll watcher” you mention was campaigning for Kerry.
At the polls in my county, there is absolutely no campaigning allowed within 100 ft of the polls. This includes tee shirts, buttons, and signs. There is a bit of a grey area when it comes to bumper stickers. If a person has one on their car and is just showing up to vote, they get a pass. A number of years ago when I was a poll watcher, a rat poll watcher showed up also. She had her car plastered in rat stickers and parked as close to the entrance as she could. I told her to move her car, to which she refused. I then made a few phone calls and she was told that if she didn’t move her car, which was just a rolling campaign sign, she would be arrested. I’m not sure what to tell you when the cops your dealing with refuse to enforce the laws other than depending how strongly you believe in having honest elections, you may have to risk going to jail yourself to stand up for what is right. Document everything if possible.
>>Check with the laws in your state, but there’s probably a set distance from the polling place in which a person can campaign for a candidate. Clearly the “poll watcher” you mention was campaigning for Kerry.
Do ya think???
Seriously, since our county is mostly white, heavily military, and very conservative, it had been targeted as one that would be a test case for “voter disenfranchisement”. They filed suits because a black person got stopped for a speeding ticket on election day. That’s how silly 2004 was. Remember that this was the one after the “stolen” election of 2000 and the rank-and-file useful idiots were in “never again” mode!
So, the Dems got a pass on all their antics. The Supervisor of Elections was a coward for not fighting and for issuing instructions to poll guards to allow this sort of thing. I did file a complaint. Nothing came of it, that I know of. Also remember that it was 2004 so phone cameras weren’t as common as they are now. I didn’t even have a cell phone in 2004, much less a smartphone.
And in the end, we won anyway. Or at least we thought we did. The Globalist Progressives won that one, just like the 4 before it and the 2 since.
If I see a Hillary sign at the polling place door on Nov 8 2016, I will risk the trip to jail by grabbing it on my way out after I’ve voted for Trump.
That’s called electioneering. It’s illegal in most states.