What do you think?

 

http://news.aol.com/article/politicians-battle-over-voters-attire/200356?icid=200100397x1210549588x1200661306

HARRISBURG, Pa. (Oct. 4) - Sue Nace thought election volunteers were joking when they told her she would have to remove her T-shirt to vote in the presidential primary last spring.

But it was no laughing matter to the poll workers-turned-fashion police, who said Nace's Obama shirt was inappropriate electioneering — and made her cover the writing before casting a ballot.

Now, a political fight over what voters can wear to the polls is headed to court in Pennsylvania — with the Republican Party favoring a dress code and Democrats opposed.

Eh, it's free speech. I understand the need to bar intimidation from polling places, but a t-shirt, button, or whatever isn't intimidating anyone. Then again, if electioneering were allowed at polling places they would probably turn into a circus of partisan drivel.

You're not going to a football game, you don't need to be wearing something in support of your candidate, your vote takes care of that. I wouldn't even think of wearing something in support of the candidate I'm voting for at the polls, in fact I'd be embarrassed to.

You're not going to a football game, you don't need to be wearing something in support of your candidate, your vote takes care of that. I wouldn't even think of wearing something in support of the candidate I'm voting for at the polls, in fact I'd be embarrassed to.

 

So the government needs to regulate what you wear to cast your vote?

So the government needs to regulate what you wear to cast your vote?

I don't have a problem with the government saying no shirts, hats, buttons etc. for any candidate. In fact, I think it's a good idea. What's the point of wearing one to the polls?

Campaigning is restricted near polling places. Campaign shirts, buttons, hats, etc. are fair game.

I don't have a problem with the government saying no shirts, hats, buttons etc. for any candidate. In fact, I think it's a good idea. What's the point of wearing one to the polls?

 

Personal freedom? Should you and I be allowed to wear shirts with photos of guns on it to the polls? What about those that want to wear shirts with profanity on them? I hate those (the profanity ones) and don't think they have a place anywhere...but I believe in the freedom of choice for people that choose to wear them.

 

Where so we stop on prohibiting this freedom of choice?

Campaigning is restricted near polling places. Campaign shirts, buttons, hats, etc. are fair game.

 

I think the law is pretty clear, so there shouldn't be a question. Wearing a shirt supporting a candidate is campaigning no if and or butts.....and it is illegal to do so within a certain distance of the polling place and that is the way it should be!

I think the law is pretty clear, so there shouldn't be a question. Wearing a shirt supporting a candidate is campaigning no if and or butts.....and it is illegal to do so within a certain distance of the polling place and that is the way it should be!

:thumb: I agree. If wearing campaign garb at the polls is unconstitutional, then all laws regulating campaigning near the polls would also be unconstitutional. I like being able to vote without being harassed by overzealous campaign volunteers.

Campaigning is restricted near polling places. Campaign shirts, buttons, hats, etc. are fair game.

I'm a poll worker in Campbell Co . This question came up a few elections ago and this is what we were told by the County clerks office . In Kentucky electioneering in illegal within I believe 500 feet of polling places . The wearing of campaign shirts or buttons is not prohibited while you are waiting in line to vote as long as all you are doing is standing in line waiting to vote , but don't try to pass out any campaign literature or persuade other voters about your candidate while waiting or afterwards . You vote Then leave .

Edited October 5, 200818 yr by KyTmcNcc

Once again our focus is on fluff instead of things that matter.

 

I'm not so sure that we shouldn't have a nationally standardized proficiency exam for voting eligibility wherein prospective voters must demonstrate at least a minimal grasp of history and current affairs before being entrusted with something as important as selecting our nation's leaders. The fact that George Will's vote counts no more than a Jay-Walk All-Star recruited to Rock-the-Vote is absurd.

 

I also believe that there is great inequity in allowing individuals who have never paid one dollar in federal income tax to vote on an equal footing with those who invest majorly in the financing of this nation. I genuinely do think that voting rights should be limited to actual "shareholders" who pay even one dollar annually in Federal Income Taxes.

 

But before you throw me under the bus for being extreme... I do agree that policing tee-shirts is a silly, misplaced waste of time and energy. :lol:

If you are simply just wearing the shirt there is no problem at all with it.

Once again our focus is on fluff instead of things that matter.

 

I'm not so sure that we shouldn't have a nationally standardized proficiency exam for voting eligibility wherein prospective voters must demonstrate at least a minimal grasp of history and current affairs before being entrusted with something as important as selecting our nation's leaders. The fact that George Will's vote counts no more than a Jay-Walk All-Star recruited to Rock-the-Vote is absurd.

 

I also believe that there is great inequity in allowing individuals who have never paid one dollar in federal income tax to vote on an equal footing with those who invest majorly in the financing of this nation. I genuinely do think that voting rights should be limited to actual "shareholders" who pay even one dollar annually in Federal Income Taxes.

 

But before you throw me under the bus for being extreme... I do agree that policing tee-shirts is a silly, misplaced waste of time and energy. :lol:

:thumb: I agree. I only pointed out that if restrictions on electioneering within 500 feet of the polls is constitutional then restricting t-shirts and campaign hats is constitutional as well.

 

I would gladly suffer in a line to vote with people decked out head to toe in campaign paraphernalia if my fellow voters were federal taxpayers who could name their president, vice president, US senators, state governor, and their representative in the House of Representatives.

 

Standing in line with human parasites who have been rounded up and trucked in like cattle to cast a vote for a bigger handout must be demoralizing in many heavily Democratic precincts.

:thumb: I agree. I only pointed out that if restrictions on electioneering within 500 feet of the polls is constitutional then restricting t-shirts and campaign hats is constitutional as well.

 

I would gladly suffer in a line to vote with people decked out head to toe in campaign paraphernalia if my fellow voters were federal taxpayers who could name their president, vice president, US senators, state governor, and their representative in the House of Representatives.

 

Standing in line with human parasites who have been rounded up and trucked in like cattle to cast a vote for a bigger handout must be demoralizing in many heavily Democratic precincts.

Well you could avoid what you consider the Hoi Polloi and cast an absentee ballot . " Human Parasites " sounds like a phrase straight out of " Mein Kampf "