It’s only one side that appears to be doing this.
There are fine people on both sides.
Unfortunately he only got arrested after he voted. I guess the silver lining is that that’s probably the last time he’ll get to vote if convicted.
Tbf I think felons should be allowed to vote.
… Unless your felony was committed while voting. That seems like an exception…
It’s insane that being convinced of a crime makes you ineligible to vote in the USA. Other countries don’t have this.
It doesn’t. It varies by state, but most states allow convicted felons to vote after completing their sentence. Only about ten states permanently revoke voting rights, but even then, it’s not for all felonies, and voting rights can still be restored in some cases.
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Canada does this, polling stations in prison because its a universal right for all citizens
They are. Most states allow felons to vote after completing their sentence.
I dug into this more because I was under the impression it was the case that most states did not: here’s what I found
https://felonvoting.procon.org/state-felon-voting-laws/
23 states let you vote after prison. 9 fully stop you off your rights. DC & 2 State let you vote from prison. The others are some level of parole or parole and probation.
Which means overall 9/51 are full loss: everywhere else you can theoretically get it back.
If the Republicans win it could be the last time anyone gets to vote.
Probably not, they’ll still hold sham elections to maintain the false veneer of mandate
Nope. In Texas, convicted felons regain voting rights after completing their sentences.
Oh, that’s great. (In general, obviously).
So another terrorist attack then. Glad to know the US is still going strong in democracy.
Gosh, what a totally fucking normal reaction to having someone ask you to remove a…checks notes…hat.
Conservatives and the GOP are a cancer.
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So, are you arguing that we should let trump supporters violate the laws so we don’t upset them?
Unless you want to have someone with the right equipment and training to deal with those escalations, he’s right.
Unfortunately, the cops are wearing the Trump clothing.
Then the cops should be arrested.
In my state, if someone is interfering with a poll worker, the police are required to arrest them when called on to do so. If the police don’t, then they are subject to arrest themselves.
Man that sounds great! I wonder if we can figure out what the average response would be? Maybe take the news around the country into account and guess how it would generally play out. Then extrapolate that data into trying to understand why someone would be more hesitant to put themselves into this situation?
Imagine
Hey NANDad, if you’re interested in being the “Trump gear enforcement officer” I’m sure they’d love to have you! But no, he’s not arguing that. I think you understood that, didn’t you? He’s arguing poll workers shouldn’t be doing it.
Yeah, but that’s not what he said, and the way things are now, it’s impossible to know what someone is saying unless they actually say it.
Edit: You are right about one point. Every time I go to vote, the polling place is staffed by fragile, elderly men and women.
I’ve been told I have a “resting murder face”. Maybe I’m the kind of person who should be there. I just submitted an application to be a poll worker. Wish me luck.
This will be my third time as an election official. I’m “just” in my early 50s and am the kid in the room that’s good with computers. A younger generation of poll workers is desperately needed. I have to use a vacation day to do it, but am glad I have that ability.
That’s awesome! Good luck!
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It’s not a stupid law. It exists to protect voters from intimidation.
If the law makes no provision for enforcement, then that is certainly stupid.
As I understand it, in my state not only is it illegal to interfere with a poll worker, it’s also illegal for the police to not make an arrest when the poll worker demands it under the law.
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The problem is not the law, it’s enforcement. It’s only a problem now because no enforcement is ever made until. Until it’s a huge problem. Until it’s an incident. If you let the individual act like they are more important than the society they exist in, this is what you get. Fetishized individualism.
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Ah yes, senior citizens are the ones charged with upholding laws.
This was a result of no enforcement, this wasn’t the enforcement.
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I remember as a kid going with my parents to vote. All of the folks with signs had to stand by the road instead of in the parking lot because of the electioneering laws. This was back in the 90s, so they have indeed been enforced for a long time. This was back before the red side was violent and unhinged like they are today, so I would say that electioneering laws are more important today than they ever have been.
I was a poll watcher in Texas. Electioneering was never a big deal before because you didn’t have people whose entire personality was being Donald Trump cult members. Electioneering violations were almost always small candidates trying to get name recognition at the last second. They’d have someone post up with a car with signs on it.
But the rules were good for reducing tension because the line to keep out was clear and it kept politicking out of the voting area.
Obviously the entire concept of reducing tension is foreign to the Trump nutters.
Stop making sense!
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They do know that votebeat.org is not meant to be an instructional URL, right?
That Trump supporter will be fine in prison. Everyone knows you have to fight someone on the first day and he does that while voting.
Maybe Jesse Lutzenberger of San Antonio Texas could get fucked.
The first such incident of the year, presumably of many to come.
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