You can’t wear Trump T-Shirts at a polling place. But you can simply wear Red.
If it doesn’t actually say “Trump” it should be OK.
“Make America Great Again” and “(I am) Deplorable” are NOT per se endorsing any particular candidate.
Hairsplitting aside, grown men and women don’t try to dress provocatively at a polling place.
I’m wearing a red T-shirt over my hoodie on Nov 8th.
It gets cold here in November.
Nice lawsuit coming on.
I’ve already used up my WaPo articles for the month, so I figure I’m ok saying that he must have been acting like a jerk to actually get arrested. I’ve worked polls a couple of times, and the very worst I’ve seen — once — was that a policeman who happened to be there at the same time told a complainer that he had to turn his shirt inside out. This guy had to have been more obnoxious than refusing to do that.
But the New Black Panthers intimidating outside a polling place is okay. Got it.
Good intentions aside, you can’t do that. Doesn’t matter who your voting for.
But...but, there was no showing of intent. Case closed.
We will wear red to vote on Election Day in Texas.
You can’t promote a candidate near a polling place.
This guy was ignorant or provocative.
So when I wear a red shirt when I vote for Trump, will I be arrested?
PLEASE! I could use the extra money after I sue their butts under the First Amendment!!!
/In Texas? REALLY?!
BTW, I do not believe that wearing particular clothing counts as “electioneering.”
Any legal eagles want to speak up?
This is how ‘polling place observers’ operate; they pick people who don’t look like they’re going to vote for their candidate, and then claim ‘electioneering’ and demand that these offenders be arrested.
So anything at all can be considered as you’re being profiled by the opposition the moment you step out of your car. (And yes, I’ve seen poll observers pull out a measuring line to see if that car with a bumper sticker was within the forbidden zone...)
Thing is, it almost never sticks to the point of arrest. People will be requested to go take off a shirt or pin or move the offending vehicle.
I completely disagree that either item is electioneering - statutory challenges have stated that to be considered, the impact must be great enough to be more than ‘common awareness’ - IE a bumper sticker is common awareness (can be seen anywhere), whereas holding a campaign sign and staring at the people going in to vote is seen as more than common awareness.
And yes, I have fought off poll watchers who tried to have someone arrested for wearing an American flag pin. Thankfully the officers simply hauled away the watcher on a disturbing the peace charge when they just wouldn’t stop shouting.
The actual code section:
Sec. 61.003. ELECTIONEERING AND LOITERING NEAR POLLING PLACE. (a) A person commits an offense if, during the voting period and within 100 feet of an outside door through which a voter may enter the building in which a polling place is located, the person:
(1) loiters; or
(2) electioneers for or against any candidate, measure, or political party.
(a-1) The entity that owns or controls a public building being used as a polling place may not, at any time during the voting period, prohibit electioneering on the building’s premises outside of the area described in Subsection (a), but may enact reasonable regulations concerning the time, place, and manner of electioneering.
(b) In this section:
(1) “Electioneering” includes the posting, use, or distribution of political signs or literature.
(2) “Voting period” means the period beginning when the polls open for voting and ending when the polls close or the last voter has voted, whichever is later.
(c) An offense under this section is a Class C misdemeanor.
Hmm, is wearing a hat or shirt “the posting, use, or distribution of political signs or literature”? Nope.
I suspect his will cost this liberal suburb of “Stay Strane” Austin a LOT!!!
But Hillary can campaign at a polling station and that’s allowed.
Is an idiot.
Mauthe was stopped before he could cast his ballot.
Good job, retard.
Wow, the Kerrville Deplorable Couple got off easy!