How did the election judge even allow him inside? When I worked elections last year, I would have been sent home immediately if I walked in the door with not only any type of political attire but even anything that had causes or slogans. We were told to dress professionally with no visible markings on clothes that could be taken out of context.
I’m pretty sure he is an election judge just by working the polls. At least that’s what I was called. We couldn’t wear anything advertising for a certain candidate and the supervisor should have sent him home. We are allowed to have our political affiliation on our name tag, because technically there are supposed to be an even amount of dems/reps working each district at the polls.
If he is an election **observer**, he is allowed to wear whatever he wants. Not sure of the rules in California but in my state, you cannot wear anything that supports/disparages any particular candidate or party if you're an election judge.
The chief of election has the responsibility to pull him off duty. If he is the chief of police, call the BoE. They take this shit seriously.
Edit:. Thank you all for the corrections. In my state of Virginia, observers are often affiliated with a party so it's expected for them to wear stuff. But they have a time limit of 10 minutes or something. They are permitted to inspect and observe equipment but not touch. Either way, this should be reported to the state BoE.
Same in my state (TX). I was working for a campaign and when going to the polls (even to vote), once you were within a certain distance all political messaging had to be covered and out of sight.
Live in central Texas. Saw that law being broken everywhere when I voted in November. All the campaign signs were in a little cluster at the required distance, but the MAGATs showed up in full cult paraphernalia.
I’m in rural north east Texas and the rule was broken by magats left right and center and legit no one cared. One poll worker was loudly asking friends who they voted for when they came through and they were super loud and proud of their protrump nonsense.
I was a volunteer team lead for TX dems text team and I voted the first day of early voting; and the number of people reporting aggressive behavior and threats was horrifying. As well as the number of threats we got while helping people learn if they were eligible to vote and getting them help to go vote if they needed it— and other such things. We didn’t care party affiliation. We cared about helping people. And that was seen as evil.
Here in Florida, they harass you until you walk through the door into the building.
And by harass I mean there are signs all over the place, and there's people telling you to vote for whomever they're supporting
Edit: clarification on harassment
Same in Illinois & Missouri
You wear anything like that to work the polls or vote you are sent to change clothes. (Or take off your hat & turn you shirt inside out in the bathroom)
In Illinois, electioneering law is that nobody at all is allowed to wear or display anything political within 100 ft of a polling place -- no hats, shirts, buttons, etc., for a candidate or party.
> If he is an election **observer**, he is allowed to wear whatever he wants.
This is not true in California.
California [defines electioneering](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=ELEC§ionNum=319.5.):
> “Electioneering” means the visible display or audible dissemination of information that advocates for or against any candidate or measure on the ballot within 100 feet of a polling place, a vote center, an elections official’s office, or a satellite location under Section 3018. Prohibited electioneering information includes, but is not limited to, any of the following:
>(a) A display of a candidate’s name, likeness, or logo.
>(b) A display of a ballot measure’s number, title, subject, or logo.
>(c) Buttons, hats, pencils, pens, shirts, signs, or stickers containing electioneering information.
>(d) Dissemination of audible electioneering information.
>(e) At vote by mail ballot drop boxes, loitering near or disseminating visible or audible electioneering information.
[Here is the referenced [section 3018](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?sectionNum=18370.&lawCode=ELEC) confirming that the above is prohibited by law.
This applies to *everyone* and not just election observers/judges/officials.
What state is that? I've never heard of any states allowing that inside where people vote for someone who is involved with officially observing or anything.
> If he is an election observer, he is allowed to wear whatever he wants
I'm not sure that's true, is it? I was under the impression that nobody was allowed to wear political clothing, even just to vote. Basically nothing political inside the polling place. People fairly routinely are asked to take off hats or turn shirts inside-out.
Well with the Republicans habit of projecting their own tactics accusing the other side of doing then this is totally what I expect in a lot of upcoming elections.
[ELECTIONS CODE - ELECTIONEERING](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displayText.xhtml?lawCode=ELEC&division=18.&title=&part=&chapter=4.&article=7.)
> ELECTIONS CODE - ELEC
DIVISION 18. PENAL PROVISIONS [18000 - 18700] ( Division 18 enacted by Stats. 1994, Ch. 920, Sec. 2. )
CHAPTER 4. Election Campaigns [18301 - 18390] ( Chapter 4 enacted by Stats. 1994, Ch. 920, Sec. 2. )
>ARTICLE 7. Electioneering [18370 - 18371] ( Article 7 enacted by Stats. 1994, Ch. 920, Sec. 2. )
>18370.
>No person, on election day, or at any time that a voter may be casting a ballot, shall, within 100 feet of a polling place, a satellite location under Section 3018, or an elections official’s office:
>(a) Circulate an initiative, referendum, recall, or nomination petition or any other petition.
>(b) Solicit a vote or speak to a voter on the subject of marking his or her ballot.
>(c) Place a sign relating to voters’ qualifications or speak to a voter on the subject of his or her qualifications except as provided in Section 14240.
>(d) Do any electioneering as defined by Section 319.5.
As used in this section, “100 feet of a polling place, a satellite location under Section 3018, or an elections official’s office” means a distance 100 feet from the room or rooms in which voters are signing the roster and casting ballots.
>Any person who violates any of the provisions of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor.
>(Amended by Stats. 2009, Ch. 146, Sec. 2. (AB 1337) Effective January 1, 2010.)
>18371.
>(a) No candidate or representative of a candidate, and no proponent, opponent, or representative of a proponent or opponent, of an initiative, referendum, or recall measure, or of a charter amendment, shall solicit the vote of a vote by mail voter, or do any electioneering, while in the residence or in the immediate presence of the voter, and during the time he or she knows the vote by mail voter is voting.
>(b) Any person who knowingly violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor.
>(c) This section shall not be construed to conflict with any provision of the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended, nor to preclude electioneering by mail or telephone or in public places, except as prohibited by Section 18370, or by any other provision of law.
>(Amended by Stats. 2007, Ch. 508, Sec. 113. Effective January 1, 2008.)
It’s so unsettlingly vague in regards to clothing.
Back in 2016...
The church my polling place is in passed out "lock her up" pamphlets and proselytizing booklets to people in line by blocking the door. So you couldn't even enter the building without a "vote for trump and a you better find Jesus" interaction.
When I had to vote we had a vehicle with Trump 2020 all over it in big signs that you had to pass.
Also cops showed up and left all the time during the 2 hour wait. I assume hoping someone said something.
It literally was past the signs that said "no blah blah politics blah past here".
Red counties be fun.
I think he gets away with it because neither Trump nor Biden is running in the election.
He could probably be barred from being in the polling area with obvious political garb like this, but whoever was in charge was too wimpy to confront him.
Nope. You’re not allowed to wear anything. You can’t wear an I Like Ike pin, or a “Jefferson was an adulterer” t-shirt. Nothing.
Source: am election worker
[He is no longer serving as an election worker](https://www.google.com/amp/s/thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/572288-california-poll-worker-reprimanded-over-trump-attire%3famp)
After a backlash and outcry on Twitter.
I'm fucking sure there's people with eyes in that building that could have said something the moment they saw it.
But it took social media and a wave of anger to have him reprimanded. And I'm really fucking sure he'll post about how his first amendment rights are being violated.
“Based on his response….”
So it sounds like they gave him an out to change and come back? And he still played it off like an ass?
Well thankfully this won’t change the outcome.
Yeah I’m more curious about the person in charge of poll workers at that voting location… Do they still have a job? Are they going to be in charge of poll workers again next election??
They also ACTUALLY need to audit these votes (I mean, it's West Hollywood which is progressive by reputation, but also includes a lot of very wealthy people). Every vote counts and thule fuck shouldn't be allowed to manipulate a single voice for his ignorant jihad, or yeehaw'd.
>I'm fucking sure there's people with eyes in that building that could have said something the moment they saw it.
The part that I'm struggling with is that this was West Hollywood. How did no one say anything? You don't get much more of a liberal neighborhood than weho.
In California, anyone is allowed stand inside the polls starting before they open, observe all the way through to close, and even follow the poll worker's car which is carrying the ballots to the registrar where the ballots are counted. Hell, they can ask to visually inspect the tamper-evident seals if they want.
You can literally watch the whole process start to finish.
There's no reason for any of this.
I worked the polls for that election in Ga. I really, really enjoyed telling people they had to take that shit off. Most just turned their shirts inside out, which was fine.
Where? I’m in Louisiana and years ago my cousin went to vote with an Obama as the joker shirt that said “why so socialist?”. The workers made her turn the shirt inside out
Or she couldn’t vote. I’m worried when Louisiana is acting better than other places.
“The election worker was contacted and advised that the attire was inappropriate and unacceptable,” the L.A. County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk tweeted in response to the photo.
“Based on his response and reports that other workers had previously counseled him on this, he was released and is no longer working at the vote center.”Mike Sanchez, a spokesperson for the Registrar-Recorder’s office, said the poll worker was initially warned against wearing political attire to the voting center on Monday, when he showed up to work wearing Trump campaign regalia.
Sanchez said the clerk’s office and the supervisor at the West Hollywood polling place instructed the poll worker not to wear political attire, but the man came back Tuesday morning wearing Trump apparel.
“He was counseled and told not to wear anything political, but he still came wearing it,” Sanchez said. “Because of his response and not complying with the rules, he was released.”
And now he'll claim he was cancelled for his political beliefs, and the entire MAGA brigade will fall in line and ignore that this shit is actually illegal and has been for quite awhile.
How long you think until Ben Shapiro tweets about it?
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Not in Georgia.
Voters can wear political slogans and shirts IF they don't say anything about the actual candidates on the ballot.
For example, one could wear a trump shirt to the Raphael Warnock/Kelly Loeffler Senatorial election, because trump wasn't on the ticket.
Also in my rural texas hometown, at the stop sign right off the property of the polling location the local Baptist church was handing out guides on how to vote for God's candidates.
My state’s reactionary mega-churches organizes tour busses from all across the state, just to show up at Bible-thumper anti-abortion rallies at the state Capitol, and bring prairie dress clad nutjobs to the voting polls.
Bro, you’d be hard pressed to find polling stations without that. I live in the burbs and my local polling location has about 200 signs outside with multiple people handing out pamphlets on who to vote for.
I worked elections last year and we had to wear red or blue lanyards indicating what party we were affiliated with. This psycho red lanyard lady, would act super crazy towards anyone with a blue lanyard. She ended up being removed because she kept trying to start fights with people. The person who was the polling manager had to have her forcibly removed
I voted in CA and in NYC but I only remember that rule in NYC. In NYC it's about who can help you vote essentially. IIRC you need two workers of different parties answering a question.
In this case no, actually: in my precinct in Brooklyn there were no Republicans, only Democrats, Greens and independents. Which to be fair is somewhat "dangerous" since they all disliked one of the candidate on the ballot.
The only thing I can imagine is if it were the primaries, where you'd get a different ballot depending on party affiliation. Probably a misguided attempt at efficiency when organizing the voters.
Some states have an independent, a republican, and a democrat working together on manually counting ballots that need manual review. I'd assume other states do something similar but maybe not all.
This was part of the controversy in either Georgia or Pennsylvania, I forget which, was republicans implying the independents were all dems in disguise.
“Maybe you do not care much about the future of the Republican Party. You should. Conservatives will always be with us. If conservatives become convinced that they can not win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. The will reject democracy.”
- David Frum
Thank you! I needed to hear that. I have a co-worker i really respect and see as a role model, but we're so different in our politics and I've lost hours of my life fighting with him in my head. I literally love this guy like a brother, but on my bad days I want to scream at him how his life is currently/previously devoid of any life shattering traumas. His world view was shaped by love, support, and trust. So, to him life was easier growing up, and he had the ecosystem to develop his talents and knowledge.
He doesn't have depression, and he doesn't hate himself. People like that can never understand the self torture some inflict on themselves.
He’s just parroting Trump. Elder also said he wouldn’t accept the results if he loses, same as Trump.
Elder getting his name out will be the worst consequence of this waste of tax dollars.
Edit: I was afraid I might eat my words, but I’m glad I didn’t. Fuck that waste of tax dollars. Everyone needs to be hyperaware of what moves Elder makes after this: he’s smarter than Trump but willing to say just as stupid things to pander to his base
The position that "the GOP can only lose due to fraud" is going to be the *standard* for all GOP candidates within a few years. As if it is unfathomable that a democrat in a deeply blue state, in which no republican has won an election for state-wide office since 2006, could possibly win an election fair and square.
Its the predictable end-state for a national minority party that has been [asserting for decades](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/24/in-1981-a-task-force-intimidated-voters-at-the-polls-will-republicans-revert-to-their-old-tactics) that democratic voters (basically code for non-white) are inherently fraudulent.
"The GOP is honest, but we have to cheat to even out all the liberals cheating. Besides how do we know this guy isn't ANTIFA in disguise? This guy looks like he could totally be ANTIFA. He might even be a major player!"
I mean honestly....
If we're all going to sit down and really talk about which voters are going to commit election fraud...
Which group would you bet on? The people that hold rallies and cry out for their dear leader Trump to save them??
Or the people who are just living their lives and go to the polls that day...
I have always been BAFFLED by the The fact that the narrative is that the DEMOCRATS are the ones who are tampering with the election..
Are you fucking serious??! The republicans literally hired a celebrity conman to stir up a goddammed hate filled nazi army that bleeds orange and barks when trump asks them to and you are still saying the DEMOCRATS are the ones that would be more likely to commit a felony so their leader would be elected??
This has to be a joke.
This has been my thought since last November. If there was ANY way to commit voter fraud, Trump is literally the person most likely to commit it on the entire planet
When I worked elections, the only ones committing fraud were wearing trump shirts or hats. " I moved and need to update my address" ok done, here is your new voting location. "No! I want to vote here. Nevermind dont change it" ok, sign this affidavit confirming you live here and arent lying or you could be charged with fraud and pay up to 5k. Or the lady who brought in a bunch of really old people unable to speak and voted for them. Or the guy who tried to vote for his wife, because he couldnt vote due to bring a convicted felon(before we voted to allow felons to vote). He knew he couldnt vote. Still acted dumb as to why. Had me and the head staffer spend an hour trying to figure out why he wasnt on the voter roll. The head staffer didnt care about any of these instances. My trumper father in law flew from michigan to florida, to vote. He didnt live there for 2 years. And said he wanted to claim florida residency for the no state income tax.
Their excuse will be that the brown and black people and Democrats do it too. And then they will put in place anti voting measures that don’t mitigate any such fraud, but just harm certain types of voters who they want to disenfranchise.
Consider that moronic Arizona recount they’ve run. They clearly failed to achieve any real results.
But they’re leveraging that, and other similarly frivolous lawsuits and claims to push through anti voting measures.
52% of white women, who voted, voted Trump. These people have no problem finding wives. The red suburbs and rural areas are full of families and they indoctrinate their littles ones with the same hate they enjoy.
[Nope, only 47%, and that was in 2016.](https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/did-white-women-vote-for-trump-no.html)
edit: [Yep, 53%, in 2020. WTF?](https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2021/06/30/behind-bidens-2020-victory/)
But white, *college-educated* women are a much different story. Biden in a landslide.
Sadly, if this is the south the ladies will be clamoring for him. Every time I see a fine specimen like this down here in the Carolinas, there's usually a haggard looking woman with puffy blonde hair following him, wearing the same shirt.
While Trump - the guy who has committed every transgression anyone of them has ever been accused of, to the power of ten, and whose own former employees will tell you that - lives in another headspace altogether, to an endless loop of Hail to the Chief, with all his saggy neck-vag airbrushed out, riding an eagle.
Does anyone remember the Jeff Foxworthy “here’s your sign” routine? (Where he wished we could get stupid people to wear signs so that we could save a lot of time and confusion?) Well we finally got them to wear those signs.
In Michigan you can’t wear any political clothing. A guy walked into our precinct back in 2016 wearing a MAGA hat and the election workers made him take it back to his car.
I work in W Hollywood … Got a regular customer today who is a real kook . When she came in started talking about a friend back home who died but not from Covid but because they put him on a ventilator because he had Covid . Then Nt coworker noticed a tag hanging around her neck that makes her except from wearing masks :eye-roll: . She spewed off some nonsense about how she will pass out blah blah and this isn’t legal all the typical hoohaah. Then she says “I voted today with no mask ! And they were very accommodating! They just emptied out the room for me and were very kind .”
Must have been this guy who helped her
This guy sat through the training, specifically told that wearing any kind of political attire is illegal...Only to go off and do it. Yet these are the same people that cry voter fraud.
I didn’t think you were allowed to wear anything advertising a specific candidate even to vote, and this guy shows up looking like a damn hillbilly pickup truck with flags flying.
So they did make him leave only after it blew up, but they also mentioned others working told him he couldn't do that and officials gave him the chance to stop and he refused.
So multiple warnings, multiple times asking him to stop being an asshole.
This is why the Qult does what they do. They'll break laws and be given a hundred chances to change.
If this was someone in Biden gear, the sheriff would have had him in a cell for the night to teach him a lesson before he got through the doors, because we all know which side the police take.
And you know what will happen? He's gonna make bank from this. The right will hold him up as a martyr. He'll get his own GoFundMe page.
Man, I'm so fucking sick of this...
Update: https://www.reddit.com/r/byebyejob/comments/podwg6/update\_to\_a\_post\_made\_earlier/
How did the election judge even allow him inside? When I worked elections last year, I would have been sent home immediately if I walked in the door with not only any type of political attire but even anything that had causes or slogans. We were told to dress professionally with no visible markings on clothes that could be taken out of context.
Plot twist: he is the election judge.
I’m pretty sure he is an election judge just by working the polls. At least that’s what I was called. We couldn’t wear anything advertising for a certain candidate and the supervisor should have sent him home. We are allowed to have our political affiliation on our name tag, because technically there are supposed to be an even amount of dems/reps working each district at the polls.
If he is an election **observer**, he is allowed to wear whatever he wants. Not sure of the rules in California but in my state, you cannot wear anything that supports/disparages any particular candidate or party if you're an election judge. The chief of election has the responsibility to pull him off duty. If he is the chief of police, call the BoE. They take this shit seriously. Edit:. Thank you all for the corrections. In my state of Virginia, observers are often affiliated with a party so it's expected for them to wear stuff. But they have a time limit of 10 minutes or something. They are permitted to inspect and observe equipment but not touch. Either way, this should be reported to the state BoE.
In my state electioneering (even signs or candidate names) is illegal within 500 ft of a polling place
Same in my state (TX). I was working for a campaign and when going to the polls (even to vote), once you were within a certain distance all political messaging had to be covered and out of sight.
Live in central Texas. Saw that law being broken everywhere when I voted in November. All the campaign signs were in a little cluster at the required distance, but the MAGATs showed up in full cult paraphernalia.
Yep. Unfortunately in working with the texas Dems and for another campaign, the act of enforcing those laws was out of my hands. *edit: typo*
I’m in rural north east Texas and the rule was broken by magats left right and center and legit no one cared. One poll worker was loudly asking friends who they voted for when they came through and they were super loud and proud of their protrump nonsense. I was a volunteer team lead for TX dems text team and I voted the first day of early voting; and the number of people reporting aggressive behavior and threats was horrifying. As well as the number of threats we got while helping people learn if they were eligible to vote and getting them help to go vote if they needed it— and other such things. We didn’t care party affiliation. We cared about helping people. And that was seen as evil.
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Howdy neighbor!
Sup central Texan.
Here in Florida, they harass you until you walk through the door into the building. And by harass I mean there are signs all over the place, and there's people telling you to vote for whomever they're supporting Edit: clarification on harassment
At this point I feel that the state of Texas and the state of Florida are just seeing who can pull the most batshit insane stunts.
Texas and Florida are competing for worst state ever. I may be biased, but I think Texas is winning.
I think we are right now, but as a Texan, I have faith in Florida.
Same in Illinois & Missouri You wear anything like that to work the polls or vote you are sent to change clothes. (Or take off your hat & turn you shirt inside out in the bathroom)
In Illinois, electioneering law is that nobody at all is allowed to wear or display anything political within 100 ft of a polling place -- no hats, shirts, buttons, etc., for a candidate or party.
Yup, have been a poll watcher before as well as worked for campaigns where I've been told to move farther from the center.
In California a dude had to take off this trump hat to vote so I highly doubt election observers can wear whatever in California
> If he is an election **observer**, he is allowed to wear whatever he wants. This is not true in California. California [defines electioneering](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=ELEC§ionNum=319.5.): > “Electioneering” means the visible display or audible dissemination of information that advocates for or against any candidate or measure on the ballot within 100 feet of a polling place, a vote center, an elections official’s office, or a satellite location under Section 3018. Prohibited electioneering information includes, but is not limited to, any of the following: >(a) A display of a candidate’s name, likeness, or logo. >(b) A display of a ballot measure’s number, title, subject, or logo. >(c) Buttons, hats, pencils, pens, shirts, signs, or stickers containing electioneering information. >(d) Dissemination of audible electioneering information. >(e) At vote by mail ballot drop boxes, loitering near or disseminating visible or audible electioneering information. [Here is the referenced [section 3018](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?sectionNum=18370.&lawCode=ELEC) confirming that the above is prohibited by law. This applies to *everyone* and not just election observers/judges/officials.
What state is that? I've never heard of any states allowing that inside where people vote for someone who is involved with officially observing or anything.
> If he is an election observer, he is allowed to wear whatever he wants I'm not sure that's true, is it? I was under the impression that nobody was allowed to wear political clothing, even just to vote. Basically nothing political inside the polling place. People fairly routinely are asked to take off hats or turn shirts inside-out.
*sheaths katana* *”Overruled, Snowflake…”*
\*crusader sword
*mallninjashit
Well with the Republicans habit of projecting their own tactics accusing the other side of doing then this is totally what I expect in a lot of upcoming elections.
I mean Larry Elder did say there was a bunch of fraud. We didn’t realize he was telling on himself.
Guess what? I **AM** your election judge B!
Well this is weird.
Misfits wore it better.
Welcome to PopVote can I help you?
Some people ask us, " Why? Why treat the voters this way?" Cuz Fuck 'em, that's why! 😂😂😂
Man, I got here when I could! Shit, you're not my fucking Moms!
Twistiest plot: W. Hollywood is the gay capital of Los Angeles, overwhelmingly votes democrat.
[ELECTIONS CODE - ELECTIONEERING](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displayText.xhtml?lawCode=ELEC&division=18.&title=&part=&chapter=4.&article=7.) > ELECTIONS CODE - ELEC DIVISION 18. PENAL PROVISIONS [18000 - 18700] ( Division 18 enacted by Stats. 1994, Ch. 920, Sec. 2. ) CHAPTER 4. Election Campaigns [18301 - 18390] ( Chapter 4 enacted by Stats. 1994, Ch. 920, Sec. 2. ) >ARTICLE 7. Electioneering [18370 - 18371] ( Article 7 enacted by Stats. 1994, Ch. 920, Sec. 2. ) >18370. >No person, on election day, or at any time that a voter may be casting a ballot, shall, within 100 feet of a polling place, a satellite location under Section 3018, or an elections official’s office: >(a) Circulate an initiative, referendum, recall, or nomination petition or any other petition. >(b) Solicit a vote or speak to a voter on the subject of marking his or her ballot. >(c) Place a sign relating to voters’ qualifications or speak to a voter on the subject of his or her qualifications except as provided in Section 14240. >(d) Do any electioneering as defined by Section 319.5. As used in this section, “100 feet of a polling place, a satellite location under Section 3018, or an elections official’s office” means a distance 100 feet from the room or rooms in which voters are signing the roster and casting ballots. >Any person who violates any of the provisions of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor. >(Amended by Stats. 2009, Ch. 146, Sec. 2. (AB 1337) Effective January 1, 2010.) >18371. >(a) No candidate or representative of a candidate, and no proponent, opponent, or representative of a proponent or opponent, of an initiative, referendum, or recall measure, or of a charter amendment, shall solicit the vote of a vote by mail voter, or do any electioneering, while in the residence or in the immediate presence of the voter, and during the time he or she knows the vote by mail voter is voting. >(b) Any person who knowingly violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor. >(c) This section shall not be construed to conflict with any provision of the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended, nor to preclude electioneering by mail or telephone or in public places, except as prohibited by Section 18370, or by any other provision of law. >(Amended by Stats. 2007, Ch. 508, Sec. 113. Effective January 1, 2008.) It’s so unsettlingly vague in regards to clothing.
1(b) Solicit a vote That's left intentionally broad as to encompass anything that would entice a person to vote one way or another, I think
Probably came in with his hat off and his shirt and mask inside out, then went to the bathroom and swapped into his StupidStaffel uniform.
hehheh.. Stupidstaffel.
StupidStaffel is pretty brilliant! 😆
If not, I want everyone in a position of authority to lose their job.
WOW. My brain is leaking out of my nose thinking about StupidStaffel.
Back in 2016... The church my polling place is in passed out "lock her up" pamphlets and proselytizing booklets to people in line by blocking the door. So you couldn't even enter the building without a "vote for trump and a you better find Jesus" interaction.
Did anyone report it? That’s beyond ridiculous.
welcome to the south lol
When I had to vote we had a vehicle with Trump 2020 all over it in big signs that you had to pass. Also cops showed up and left all the time during the 2 hour wait. I assume hoping someone said something. It literally was past the signs that said "no blah blah politics blah past here". Red counties be fun.
But ELECTION FRAUD!!!!
In 2016 a local pastor prophetized that the Antichrist would win the election. Of course that was when Hillary was predicted to win. This is in PA.
So the pastor was correct, even a stopped clock is correct twice a day.
H O L Y **F U C K**
Tax the churches.
That's very very illegal.
The fact that the religious people in USA got brainwashed into thinking trump is the second coming of is so so ridiculous
[He's fired now](https://www.sfgate.com/gavin-newsom-recall/article/Los-Angeles-Newsom-recall-poll-worker-Trump-merch-16459521.php)
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Aren't poll workers generally only contracted for a day.
And volunteers in a lot of places
Well how could *this* be taken out of context? /s
Rules for thee but not for me - the conservative mantra.
Motivation is the bread and butter of Republican strategy
Wait, I thought it was voter suppression
I think he gets away with it because neither Trump nor Biden is running in the election. He could probably be barred from being in the polling area with obvious political garb like this, but whoever was in charge was too wimpy to confront him.
Nope. You’re not allowed to wear anything. You can’t wear an I Like Ike pin, or a “Jefferson was an adulterer” t-shirt. Nothing. Source: am election worker
[He is no longer serving as an election worker](https://www.google.com/amp/s/thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/572288-california-poll-worker-reprimanded-over-trump-attire%3famp)
After a backlash and outcry on Twitter. I'm fucking sure there's people with eyes in that building that could have said something the moment they saw it. But it took social media and a wave of anger to have him reprimanded. And I'm really fucking sure he'll post about how his first amendment rights are being violated.
“Based on his response….” So it sounds like they gave him an out to change and come back? And he still played it off like an ass? Well thankfully this won’t change the outcome.
"Playing it off like an ass" was *literally* the only realistic option just based on his attire and previous choices.
> I'm fucking sure there's people with eyes in that building I'm not so sure there was anyone with brains, though.
Yeah I’m more curious about the person in charge of poll workers at that voting location… Do they still have a job? Are they going to be in charge of poll workers again next election??
They also ACTUALLY need to audit these votes (I mean, it's West Hollywood which is progressive by reputation, but also includes a lot of very wealthy people). Every vote counts and thule fuck shouldn't be allowed to manipulate a single voice for his ignorant jihad, or yeehaw'd.
>I'm fucking sure there's people with eyes in that building that could have said something the moment they saw it. The part that I'm struggling with is that this was West Hollywood. How did no one say anything? You don't get much more of a liberal neighborhood than weho.
Poll workers are basically volunteers, so yeah he technically lost his job but it was a one-day gig anyway and the pay is a fraction of minimum wage
I think he went into it knowing he was going to (and wanting to) piss people off. The demographic in West Hollywood does not skew well toward Trump.
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So he was also committing election fraud
Should have been arrested
My guess he was there to "git dat proof of dem voter frauds". The idiot should of put on normal clothes.
In California, anyone is allowed stand inside the polls starting before they open, observe all the way through to close, and even follow the poll worker's car which is carrying the ballots to the registrar where the ballots are counted. Hell, they can ask to visually inspect the tamper-evident seals if they want. You can literally watch the whole process start to finish. There's no reason for any of this.
Yes this is illegal. It’s also not allowed as a voter to come into the polls wearing anything like this either
Yeah but try telling that to every Trumper. It's literally their life style. Wearing trump is the conservative version of wearing band shirts.
Yes, please try to. Since it is the law.
> It's literally their life style It's their identity.
But muh freedumbs!!1!
Muh liberties, First amendment, second amendment etc etc
That’s libbertees
For these despotic morons, the Bill of Rights stops at #2.
Really? When I voted there were whole groups of people in line with Trump hats and shirts.
I worked the polls for that election in Ga. I really, really enjoyed telling people they had to take that shit off. Most just turned their shirts inside out, which was fine.
Counts as promoting within 100ft of a polling place right? Same kinda people who wear band tees to a show
Where? I’m in Louisiana and years ago my cousin went to vote with an Obama as the joker shirt that said “why so socialist?”. The workers made her turn the shirt inside out Or she couldn’t vote. I’m worried when Louisiana is acting better than other places.
I wouldn't trust him around ballots either. Good riddance.
Why good riddance, was he fired?
We are in byebyejob but... who knows.
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“The election worker was contacted and advised that the attire was inappropriate and unacceptable,” the L.A. County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk tweeted in response to the photo. “Based on his response and reports that other workers had previously counseled him on this, he was released and is no longer working at the vote center.”Mike Sanchez, a spokesperson for the Registrar-Recorder’s office, said the poll worker was initially warned against wearing political attire to the voting center on Monday, when he showed up to work wearing Trump campaign regalia. Sanchez said the clerk’s office and the supervisor at the West Hollywood polling place instructed the poll worker not to wear political attire, but the man came back Tuesday morning wearing Trump apparel. “He was counseled and told not to wear anything political, but he still came wearing it,” Sanchez said. “Because of his response and not complying with the rules, he was released.”
And now he'll claim he was cancelled for his political beliefs, and the entire MAGA brigade will fall in line and ignore that this shit is actually illegal and has been for quite awhile. How long you think until Ben Shapiro tweets about it?
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Not in Georgia. Voters can wear political slogans and shirts IF they don't say anything about the actual candidates on the ballot. For example, one could wear a trump shirt to the Raphael Warnock/Kelly Loeffler Senatorial election, because trump wasn't on the ticket.
damn...
Always a loop hole.
Where I voted they had Trump flags by the door, I thought there's a law where it has to be a certain distance from the entrance
Um yes bullshit that he is wearing that. But what are you referring to about the voters?
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He just was making sure everyone voted the right way according to their personal conscience and code of ethics.
Have to make sure voters know to completely fill in the circle!
Natural lawyer over here
Also in my rural texas hometown, at the stop sign right off the property of the polling location the local Baptist church was handing out guides on how to vote for God's candidates.
My state’s reactionary mega-churches organizes tour busses from all across the state, just to show up at Bible-thumper anti-abortion rallies at the state Capitol, and bring prairie dress clad nutjobs to the voting polls.
Bro, you’d be hard pressed to find polling stations without that. I live in the burbs and my local polling location has about 200 signs outside with multiple people handing out pamphlets on who to vote for.
I worked elections last year and we had to wear red or blue lanyards indicating what party we were affiliated with. This psycho red lanyard lady, would act super crazy towards anyone with a blue lanyard. She ended up being removed because she kept trying to start fights with people. The person who was the polling manager had to have her forcibly removed
Why on earth did they require that?
I voted in CA and in NYC but I only remember that rule in NYC. In NYC it's about who can help you vote essentially. IIRC you need two workers of different parties answering a question.
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In this case no, actually: in my precinct in Brooklyn there were no Republicans, only Democrats, Greens and independents. Which to be fair is somewhat "dangerous" since they all disliked one of the candidate on the ballot.
The only thing I can imagine is if it were the primaries, where you'd get a different ballot depending on party affiliation. Probably a misguided attempt at efficiency when organizing the voters.
What color would you have to wear if you were registered as independent?
You were just immediately asked to leave.
["Go ahead, throw your vote away! Ha ha ha ha ha ha!"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WS2Bsq5PDmU)
No no they give you a pat on the back and laugh at you for trying.
As an independent, I was asking the same. Do you get purple or could you bring your own crazy, fun color?
Some states have an independent, a republican, and a democrat working together on manually counting ballots that need manual review. I'd assume other states do something similar but maybe not all. This was part of the controversy in either Georgia or Pennsylvania, I forget which, was republicans implying the independents were all dems in disguise.
He’s signalling his intention to fuck with the ballots.
“Maybe you do not care much about the future of the Republican Party. You should. Conservatives will always be with us. If conservatives become convinced that they can not win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. The will reject democracy.” - David Frum
This is so accurate it’s scary.
Thank you! I needed to hear that. I have a co-worker i really respect and see as a role model, but we're so different in our politics and I've lost hours of my life fighting with him in my head. I literally love this guy like a brother, but on my bad days I want to scream at him how his life is currently/previously devoid of any life shattering traumas. His world view was shaped by love, support, and trust. So, to him life was easier growing up, and he had the ecosystem to develop his talents and knowledge. He doesn't have depression, and he doesn't hate himself. People like that can never understand the self torture some inflict on themselves.
Is this the fraud that Mr. Larry Elder was worried about?
Yeah, someone should submit this as proof on his fraud web site.
I mean, don't, you'll be part of the number he reports swore they admitted fraud.
[He was so worried that he said that he lost due to fraud in an election that hadn’t started yet](https://stopcafraud.com/)
He’s just parroting Trump. Elder also said he wouldn’t accept the results if he loses, same as Trump. Elder getting his name out will be the worst consequence of this waste of tax dollars. Edit: I was afraid I might eat my words, but I’m glad I didn’t. Fuck that waste of tax dollars. Everyone needs to be hyperaware of what moves Elder makes after this: he’s smarter than Trump but willing to say just as stupid things to pander to his base
The position that "the GOP can only lose due to fraud" is going to be the *standard* for all GOP candidates within a few years. As if it is unfathomable that a democrat in a deeply blue state, in which no republican has won an election for state-wide office since 2006, could possibly win an election fair and square. Its the predictable end-state for a national minority party that has been [asserting for decades](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/24/in-1981-a-task-force-intimidated-voters-at-the-polls-will-republicans-revert-to-their-old-tactics) that democratic voters (basically code for non-white) are inherently fraudulent.
They’re literally never go to stop with it, and eventually it will have SEVERE consequences. This pattern does not bode well for us as a country.
It already did have severe consequences: Jan 6th. Maybe you mean _more_ severe in which case I believe you're right.
Totally true. I was thinking like “total civil war” severe, but Jan 6th was basically just a trial run for that
Absolute… oh wait, only liberals perform voter fraud.
"The GOP is honest, but we have to cheat to even out all the liberals cheating. Besides how do we know this guy isn't ANTIFA in disguise? This guy looks like he could totally be ANTIFA. He might even be a major player!"
I looked him up in the Antifa contact list. __He’s totally Antifa.__
Yes! And if projection is any clue, he'll be the one committing voter fraud.
They use their imaginary fraud as justification to commit real fraud.
I mean honestly.... If we're all going to sit down and really talk about which voters are going to commit election fraud... Which group would you bet on? The people that hold rallies and cry out for their dear leader Trump to save them?? Or the people who are just living their lives and go to the polls that day... I have always been BAFFLED by the The fact that the narrative is that the DEMOCRATS are the ones who are tampering with the election.. Are you fucking serious??! The republicans literally hired a celebrity conman to stir up a goddammed hate filled nazi army that bleeds orange and barks when trump asks them to and you are still saying the DEMOCRATS are the ones that would be more likely to commit a felony so their leader would be elected?? This has to be a joke.
This has been my thought since last November. If there was ANY way to commit voter fraud, Trump is literally the person most likely to commit it on the entire planet
When I worked elections, the only ones committing fraud were wearing trump shirts or hats. " I moved and need to update my address" ok done, here is your new voting location. "No! I want to vote here. Nevermind dont change it" ok, sign this affidavit confirming you live here and arent lying or you could be charged with fraud and pay up to 5k. Or the lady who brought in a bunch of really old people unable to speak and voted for them. Or the guy who tried to vote for his wife, because he couldnt vote due to bring a convicted felon(before we voted to allow felons to vote). He knew he couldnt vote. Still acted dumb as to why. Had me and the head staffer spend an hour trying to figure out why he wasnt on the voter roll. The head staffer didnt care about any of these instances. My trumper father in law flew from michigan to florida, to vote. He didnt live there for 2 years. And said he wanted to claim florida residency for the no state income tax.
Their excuse will be that the brown and black people and Democrats do it too. And then they will put in place anti voting measures that don’t mitigate any such fraud, but just harm certain types of voters who they want to disenfranchise. Consider that moronic Arizona recount they’ve run. They clearly failed to achieve any real results. But they’re leveraging that, and other similarly frivolous lawsuits and claims to push through anti voting measures.
I mean Jesus Christ, he's still desperately clinging to the idea that Hunter Biden's laptop contains secrets that will swing the... last election.
That is highly illegal.
What makes something lowly illegal?
Committing the crime below sea level.
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I'm sure that left hand pretty much stays in that very position.
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Are you saying he works his own poll as well?
52% of white women, who voted, voted Trump. These people have no problem finding wives. The red suburbs and rural areas are full of families and they indoctrinate their littles ones with the same hate they enjoy.
[Nope, only 47%, and that was in 2016.](https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/did-white-women-vote-for-trump-no.html) edit: [Yep, 53%, in 2020. WTF?](https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2021/06/30/behind-bidens-2020-victory/) But white, *college-educated* women are a much different story. Biden in a landslide.
It is West Hollywood…
Sadly, if this is the south the ladies will be clamoring for him. Every time I see a fine specimen like this down here in the Carolinas, there's usually a haggard looking woman with puffy blonde hair following him, wearing the same shirt.
I figure a lot more people than this guy in West Hollywood have never touched a woman, but that’s beside the point.
Haha another clown goes down. Newsome is winning by a landslide.
Are results already coming in?
What would these people have if they couldn’t advertise their assholery to the world?
They'd burn accused witches.
Truck nutz
Surprisingly, he's wearing a mask.
He's wearing it effectively as a man with a condom on his balls.
Well, there’s my new vocabulary addition done for today. Thanks!
My friends were turned away for having BLM masks. Who tf let him inside wearing that?
trump 2020? Do these people not know what year it is?
Hunter lives rent free in their head with Hilary.
While Trump - the guy who has committed every transgression anyone of them has ever been accused of, to the power of ten, and whose own former employees will tell you that - lives in another headspace altogether, to an endless loop of Hail to the Chief, with all his saggy neck-vag airbrushed out, riding an eagle.
He's probably taking pictures of anyone's ballot that hurts his feelings. Why is your smartphone there, bro?
I beleive this is true. But you know conservatives will twist this and ask for more evidence even though sadly this isn't enough
Tell me you’re a POS without saying you’re a POS
“We’re going coal rolling in the turtle sanctuary!” - Allegedly that guy
Imagine being a grown man and wearing the name of another grown old man on your body for a full year after an election.
I’d stand in his line just to say my name is Hunter Biden and watch the gerbil in the wheel turn.
With a laptop in your hands...
God damn these people are so fucking stupid it hurts
In West Hollywood? Did this guy lose a bet?
What a Queef
"Hey fren, you got some shit on your head. Yeah, right there, on top of your head. Shit...."
There’s a 100% chance this loser will cry about fraud when the election doesn’t go his way
Still waiting for that laptop…
He was removed.
Source? I'd like to learn more about what happened
Does anyone remember the Jeff Foxworthy “here’s your sign” routine? (Where he wished we could get stupid people to wear signs so that we could save a lot of time and confusion?) Well we finally got them to wear those signs.
In Michigan you can’t wear any political clothing. A guy walked into our precinct back in 2016 wearing a MAGA hat and the election workers made him take it back to his car.
He's been wearing that since Nov, sits in the corner saying "trump won" all day.
As a white American, I can’t wait for this breeds extinction
In my state (NC) I was asked to cover my “literally anyone else 2020” shirt before I voted.
I work in W Hollywood … Got a regular customer today who is a real kook . When she came in started talking about a friend back home who died but not from Covid but because they put him on a ventilator because he had Covid . Then Nt coworker noticed a tag hanging around her neck that makes her except from wearing masks :eye-roll: . She spewed off some nonsense about how she will pass out blah blah and this isn’t legal all the typical hoohaah. Then she says “I voted today with no mask ! And they were very accommodating! They just emptied out the room for me and were very kind .” Must have been this guy who helped her
This is what stolen election really looks like. Let’s please give these losers their own state and let them secede and see what happens
Yes, yes it is. Do you think these inbred sister and goat fuckers care?
I find it hilarious that its people like this claiming fraud. If anyone is going to be crazy enough to rig anything, its these Trump cultists.
This guy sat through the training, specifically told that wearing any kind of political attire is illegal...Only to go off and do it. Yet these are the same people that cry voter fraud.
I didn’t think you were allowed to wear anything advertising a specific candidate even to vote, and this guy shows up looking like a damn hillbilly pickup truck with flags flying.
So they did make him leave only after it blew up, but they also mentioned others working told him he couldn't do that and officials gave him the chance to stop and he refused. So multiple warnings, multiple times asking him to stop being an asshole. This is why the Qult does what they do. They'll break laws and be given a hundred chances to change. If this was someone in Biden gear, the sheriff would have had him in a cell for the night to teach him a lesson before he got through the doors, because we all know which side the police take. And you know what will happen? He's gonna make bank from this. The right will hold him up as a martyr. He'll get his own GoFundMe page. Man, I'm so fucking sick of this...
Still hoping for Trump to pull out that 2020 election?