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Several cycles ago it was raining and I saw people standing in line waiting to vote in the rain in the morning, so I stopped at the Dollar Store and bought 20 really cheap $1 umbrellas and handed them out at a couple polling places in my city. I told people to continue to pass them onto other when they got inside. No one told me I couldn't do that.
I was really proud of myself when I came home from work in the evening and saw people in line still using the umbrellas I handed out.
Edited: People said it is legal so I am amending this thread to be a suggestion.
Throck
(2,520 posts)Should be good to go as long as there were no political stickers on em.
Lochloosa
(16,063 posts)Brainstormy
(2,380 posts)what a thoughtful gesture!
2naSalit
(86,569 posts)I in the south somewhere in past elections, I saw people who bought or brought lawn chairs to for people to sit in. It's just a humanitarian gesture so there shouldn't be a problem with that. I can't imagine anyone standing in the rain would co,plain that someone was kind enough to think of their welfare while waiting to perform a civic duty.
MagickMuffin
(15,936 posts)Otherwise I don't think it is illegal.
Thanks for caring!!!
LAS14
(13,783 posts)... thought of that!
lark
(23,094 posts)PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,849 posts)Same with handing out free coffee or pizza. So long as you're not campaigning too close to the actual polling place, and different places have different distance limits, or not otherwise breaking the law (don't cavort about naked with only your candidate's name painted on your body) you are going to be fine.
Buying and passing out the cheap umbrellas was extremely kind of you.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,328 posts)Wonderful gesture. Bet those folks were glad!
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Was great to hear that later that day, people were passing the umbrellas backward to shield others from the rain.
Lithos
(26,403 posts)If you denied based on partisan reasons or if they were tied to a campaign...
Wounded Bear
(58,647 posts)Other than that,
Whiskeytide
(4,461 posts)... umbrella!
A great idea, kind gesture and Not illegal (at least not in Alabama). Good for you.
OhioBlue
(5,126 posts)To hand out if there were long lines and it was raining. Bottles of water too if lines were long. This was organized by OFA. We didn't have long lines in my area. A push by OFA for early vote plus Jennifer Brunner as a competent Secretary of State that cleaned up Ken Blackwells mess, combined to make Election Day much better than '04
Dem_4_Life
(1,765 posts)Johnny2X2X
(19,051 posts)It is pouring here in Grand Rapids MI, I am stopping at the dollar store after work and I'll go to inner city polling places and hand them out where lines are long enough to make people wait outside.
littlemissmartypants
(22,632 posts)The gray sky changed to blue. I took it as an omen.