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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI thought it was against the rules to wear political merch at the polls
My daughter who lives in North Carolina called to say she was upset that a few Magats were being allowed to wear Trump merchandise in line at the polls.
Walleye
(34,580 posts)LoisB
(8,331 posts)Zeitghost
(4,259 posts)From the CA SOS:
A display of a candidates name, likeness, or logo
A display of a ballot measures 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)As long we aren't flashing the lit, it's OK.
Zeitghost
(4,259 posts)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)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 doesnt 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)The only comment I got was from a couple of Kamala supporters.
LeftInTX
(29,529 posts)sinkingfeeling
(52,791 posts)Persondem
(2,068 posts)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)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)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.