No electioneering allowed in polling place
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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.
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She took her shirt off to reveal a pair of boobs, thereby depicting both candidates.
Fair, and balanced.
I was only joking
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She took her shirt off to reveal a pair of boobs, thereby depicting both candidates.
Fair, and balanced.
@Doctor-Phibes said in No electioneering allowed in polling place:
She took her shirt off to reveal a pair of boobs, thereby depicting both candidates.
Fair, and balanced.
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@Doctor-Phibes said in No electioneering allowed in polling place:
She took her shirt off to reveal a pair of boobs, thereby depicting both candidates.
Fair, and balanced.
@taiwan_girl said in No electioneering allowed in polling place:
@Doctor-Phibes said in No electioneering allowed in polling place:
She took her shirt off to reveal a pair of boobs, thereby depicting both candidates.
Fair, and balanced.
Yeah, that was the POTD.
