(sorry, it was too easy)
Posted on 09/09/2020 11:50:07 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A woman voting at Tuesday’s primary found an unorthodox way of protesting the town moderator, who ruled her T-shirt was a form of electioneering: She took it off and voted topless.
Town Moderator Paul Scafidi said the woman walked into the Talbot Gymnasium in the afternoon wearing a “McCain Hero, Trump Zero” T-shirt. As a ballot clerk was checking her name off the voter list, Scafidi said he informed the woman she could not wear a shirt with a political candidate featured on it while she voted.
Scafidi said another woman nearby was wearing a T-shirt supporting the American flag and the woman with the “Trump Zero” shirt questioned why she was being singled out, which escalated into a brief argument.
State law states no person, “shall distribute, wear, or post at a polling place any campaign material,” in part, and if convicted, is subject to a fine up to $1,000.
“She asked why her and not me?” Scafidi said. “I said she was going to have to cover her shirt and (a shirt) supporting the American flag was not electioneering. That’s my opinion, and that was my call as the moderator.”
Scafidi said at that point, the woman asked him if he wanted her to take her shirt off, despite not wearing anything underneath.
“I said, I’d rather she not,” Scafidi said. “But she took it off so fast, no one had time to react so the whole place just went, ‘woah,’ and she walked away, and I let her vote. She could’ve just gone into the hallway and turned it inside-out.”
New Hampshire’s public indecency law states an individual can be found guilty of indecent exposure and lewdness if the person “fornicates, exposes his or her genitals, or performs any other act of gross lewdness under circumstances which he or she should know will likely cause affront or alarm.”
Scafidi said he did have the authority to have police remove the voter under the indecency law, but he did not want to see the incident escalate further. He said she put her shirt back on as soon as she stepped out of the voting booth and cast her ballot.
“I could have (had her removed), but I didn’t want to exacerbate the whole thing,” Scafidi said. “I don’t know if she was trying to have me get her arrested, but I thought it was better to just let things play out. I don’t think there were more than 15 voters in the building at the time and if there were any children there, I didn’t see them.”
Scafidi said as bizarre as the incident was in the moment, poll workers mostly laughed it off and continued about their day after she left the polling location.
“If she felt it was her right, more power to her,” Scafidi said. “We all laughed about it as things were winding down, so I don’t know if it was a set-up, but I’ve never experienced anything like that. We had more important things to worry about; we had to get 2,000 people to vote safely, and check-in and count 2,000 absentee ballots.”
Regular primary not Presidential.For
example MA had its pres. primary 6
months ago (Warren came in third)
but the MA primary Sep 1 had Ed Markey
beating Joe Kennedy III for Senate
Probably look like kid’s balloons with 90% of the air let out.
These clowns are anti flag.
The instant behavior like that is demonstrated there needs to be a mandatory 30-day evaluation for mental health in a high security facility. On the spot detainment.
In her 60s, learned from Howie Carr...
She’s an anti-Trumper?
I’m pretty sure I DON’T want to see that.
Why do I suspect the woman was wearing a bra?
This was for state offices like Governor.
It says she was wearing nothing underneath.
That explains a Biden voter perfectly, the American flag is offensive!
If she was a true lib she could have just used her armpit hair to cover up.
I’d like to thank people who wear shirts bearing messages inspired by fake news. It lets me know that person is a moron without having to talk to them. It also lets me know who the easy girls are.
Yup. This is Globalists vs Nationalists. If you love America, then you are obviously favoring the Republican party. The Democrats aren’t being subtle.
State law states no person, “shall distribute, wear, or post at a polling place any campaign material,” in part, and if convicted, is subject to a fine up to $1,000.
Inferring the intent behind this law, I wonder why they put a candidate’s party affiliation on the ballot, an not simply their name and office they are running for.
I’m betting you wouldn’t want to see. With rare exceptions its always the ones you want to stay covered in these cases....
It says she was not wearing anything under the shirt.
Unfortunately this is what has happened to NH over the past 10 to 15 years.
The freaks have invaded an old conservative strong hold and contaminated the state.
Only the presidential primary is in Feb. The primary for state offices was last Tuesday.
Talk about a pathetic attention whore!
Those who wish to go naked in public are amost always those who should least do so.
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