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Man In MAGA Hat Arrested For Allegedly Punching Election Worker (www.huffpost.com)

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

For those unaware, like the perp here, you can't wear election related material in or around polling places. It's called "Electioneering".

https://www.ncsl.org/elections-and-campaigns/electioneering-prohibitions

Texas (where this happened):

100 ft. of an outside door through which a voter may enter a building in which a polling place is located

Campaign materials/signs/banners/literature

Projecting sounds Referring to candidates/issues

Loitering

Apparel/buttons/stickers/placards

Tex. Elec. Code § 61.003 and .004

Tex. Elec. Code § 61.010

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 hour ago

When I went to vote (in San Antonio, TX) in the 2022 election, I was standing in line near someone wearing a rainbow mask. Some MAGA moron gets in line wearing a MAGA hat and a "Let's Go Brandon" shirt. No one decides to say anything because if this idiot is crazy enough to wear this shit to vote, what else are they willing to do? At least they're not actively threatening anyone, right?

Then the dumbass waves down a volunteer and says that the rainbow-mask man needs to remove his mask because rainbows are political. The volunteer brings the other guy a mask and asks him to put the rainbow one in his pocket. Then turns to the Trumpicana Orange Juice Guzzler and says, "I wasn't going to say anything, but you're gonna need to take off your hat and change your shirt." The dude threw such a fit about not having a spare sorry and how he can't believe that he'll have to go home and this is undemocratic, etc., etc.

What many of us Texans are lacking in pride, we're also lacking in intelligence.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 hours ago

Huh. I thought I knew about this, but I didn’t realize it applied to individual voters. I thought it was more geared towards volunteers, demonstrators, poll workers, etc. Thanks!