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Zeitghost

(4,259 posts)
5. Some of it is prohibited in CA
Thu Oct 17, 2024, 02:42 PM
10 hrs ago

From the CA SOS:
• A display of a candidate’s name, likeness, or logo
• A display of a ballot measure’s number, title, subject, or logo
• Buttons, hats, pencils, pens, shirts, signs, or stickers containing
information about candidates or issues on the ballot
• Any audible broadcasting of information about candidates or measures
on the ballot
• Loitering near or disseminating visible or audible electioneering
information near a vote-by-mail drop box
It should be noted that a campaign slogan or a political movement slogan (or the initials
representing the campaign or political movement) does not constitute electioneering
under the legal definition of electioneering as stated above.
Accordingly, the display of slogans on clothing, face coverings, and/or buttons is not
prohibited.
Examples of campaign slogans or political movement slogans include but are not limited
to: Make America Great Again (MAGA), Black Lives Matter (BLM), Keep America Great
(KAG), Vote for Science, and Build Back Better.

https://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/ccrov/pdf/2020/september/20222jl.pdf

So while "Trump/Vance 24" is illegal, MAGA is not.

LeftInTX

(29,529 posts)
12. That's how it is in Texas. Except we are allowed to bring campaign lit into the voting booth to help us vote.
Thu Oct 17, 2024, 10:04 PM
3 hrs ago

As long we aren't flashing the lit, it's OK.

Zeitghost

(4,259 posts)
3. It depends on where you are
Thu Oct 17, 2024, 02:38 PM
10 hrs ago

It looks like it is legal in NC, provided all you are doing is voting. You would be prohibited from actively soliciting votes or trying to disrupt anyone else from voting.

dweller

(24,642 posts)
4. Rules
Thu Oct 17, 2024, 02:39 PM
10 hrs ago

According to the Wake County Board of Elections, voters who wear political shirts, hats, buttons, etc. will be allowed to vote as long as that apparel doesn’t directly call to action with slogans such as “Vote for xyz.”

Putting shirts with a call to action where other voters can see them is considered electioneering, the same as verbally telling voters to vote for a certain candidate. Neither is allowed.

But simply wearing a political shirt, such as “Biden-Harris 2020” or “Trump-Pence 2020,” while you go cast your vote in “an orderly and timely manner” is fine, according to the Wake board.

Pretty sure that is for all NC



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grobertj

(194 posts)
8. I wore my ,la button in Greensboro, NC
Thu Oct 17, 2024, 09:48 PM
3 hrs ago

The only comment I got was from a couple of Kamala supporters.

Persondem

(2,068 posts)
7. In NC electioneering is allowed up to 50(?) or so ft from the entrance. After that they should have
Thu Oct 17, 2024, 08:56 PM
4 hrs ago

been asked (forced) to remove their trump gear. I have been a poll watcher in NC and that's the way it was and probably still is. If they refused then they should have been denied entrance.

LeftInTX

(29,529 posts)
9. MAGA hats are likely allowed because MAGA is not a candidate.
Thu Oct 17, 2024, 09:53 PM
3 hrs ago

We can wear Planned Parenthood, Ruth Bader Ginsburg shirts, Beto stuff, Black Lives Matter, Fuck the Police, vote blue etc....We can't wear: Kamala stuff. We could wear Biden because he's not on the ballot.

Maeve

(42,825 posts)
10. In Ohio, we can ask them to remove such stuff
Thu Oct 17, 2024, 09:53 PM
3 hrs ago

But we can't force them to. Yeah, it's a form of campaigning, but as long as they aren't actively working it.....
Active campaigning gets a call to the board and a visit from law enforcement.

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