Is This Legal? Obama Activity in Polling Place

[seriousstan]

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[Ashy Larry]

Yes. It is legal.

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[janet118]

22. In my state, it is not legal . . .

to have any signage supporting any candidate within a certain distance of the polls. (I think it's 200 feet.) I was asked to take a button off once (I'd forgotten it was on my coat). Technically, that table should have been set up outside the polling station.

That said, I like the idea of having people there who can advise voters what recourse they have if they were not allowed a ballot or if they think their vote may have been discounted. I wish all polling places had that kind of service.

I don't believe that the "Obama for America" logo should have been displayed inside the polling station. I can't believe the precinct captain didn't make them put tape over it.

Go Obama.

[Jersey Devil]

36. Yes, but sometimes it can get ridiculous

She should be told to cut off the bottom of the sign with the Obama logo on it if anyone complains since, as you state, it is probably illegal. But realistically, who is going to change their mind due to a sign?

I actually had someone complain that a bumper sticker on my car parked at the polls when I went there to vote was illegal campaigning because the lot was less than 200 feet from the polling place. Basically I told them to kiss my ass.

[Oleladylib]

1. Nope

[julialnyc]

2. what is it?

Can't play anything out loud at work

[Ashy Larry]

5. Its just volunteers who are there to make sure people get to vote.

They are not campaigning.

[ronnykmarshall]

10. That's what poll workers are for.

And yes they are campaigning. The sign is an Obama sign.

In California they ask us (voters) to remove campaign buttons when we vote.

[Kittycat]

14. No - we all know Poll Workers make mistakes (deliberate or unintentional)

THAT is why the campaigns are allowed to have reps there, in case a problem comes up. There is no campaigning taking place.

[ronnykmarshall]

19. So the Obama sign is not campaigning?

Would care to make a bid on this lovely bridge?

[bowens43]

24. You are correct, it isn't.

[Kittycat]

27. How is it?

[elleng]

43. It IS campaigning,

if candidate's name is on a poster or other piece of paper.

Certainly OK to volunteer help, to those having trouble voting, especially since Indiana's new voting law.

[Ashy Larry]

17. What's the difference? What effect will it have on the outcome?

You really think somebody who intends to vote for Hillary will suddenly switch to Obama because the see a logo? I know a lot of Hillary supporters are high school drop-outs but come on.

[ronnykmarshall]

21. Talk about snobbery.

Give me break, if Hillary's camp did this GD-P would be exploding right now.

[Ashy Larry]

23. Do you ever get tired of lying?

[ronnykmarshall]

26. Lying about what?

[Ashy Larry]

31. The idea you are trying to promote,

that Hillary is held to a different standard, is a lie. I have had enough with the phony martyrdom.

[ronnykmarshall]

33. Parody and sarcasm just flies right over your head, doesn't it?

[Ashy Larry]

34. Those words don't mean what you think they mean.

[pollo poco]

41. It's an opinion

Dish it...but can you take it?
I'm voting for Obama, despite his supporters.
You want a world based on fairness, until it cramps your style.

Fair is fair. One of the things that makes fair fair is that the standard is applied equally-not subject to petty identity politics.
A five year old would have no problem understanding fairness on that level. Why don't you?


If it's illegal- they shouldn't be doing it. Election laws need to be upheld. Why?

If Obama can do it, so can McCain.
If robo calls are OK for Clinton, then they are OK for McCain.

We need total election reform...or is that only when Bush is doing us?

When McCain does it to your man, you will sing a different tune.

[zabet]

29. ronnyk does NOT lie.

:grr:

[futureliveshere]

38. The have been instances when Hillary supporters have worn their pins

in the polling booths while volunteering. So?

[Tunkamerica]

6. there's no sound

but there's a sign that says trouble voting? sponsored by Obama for President with two people who apparently will help people who have trouble voting. The question is whether the sign saying Obama for President is allowed inside the polling place under Indiana law.

[gabby garcia]

8. the sign says Obama for America

not Obama for President.

[Tunkamerica]

12. sorry, you're correct n/t

[Tunkamerica]

3. That's a question for the board of elections not

random people on a message board.

[Texas Hill Country]

4. you gotta be kidding?!?!?! then again, why am i not shocked after what they did in TX

[ronnykmarshall]

7. Yes it's legal.

If Hillary's camp was doing this, it would not be legal.

[swishyfeet]

11. No - it would be racist nt

[ronnykmarshall]

13. ....

:spray:

[indimuse]

9. blatantly illegal!

k&r!It is blatantly illegal.

no caucus to bully and steal...

[swishyfeet]

18. OH FUCK! Call CSI !

[delt664]

30. Blatantly Knee-jerk!!!!

Im no expert, but I do believe that campaigns are allowed to have representatives on site to deal with voting issues. Yes the sign probably shouldnt say Obama on it. IF this is an infraction, it seems to be an honest one. But why dont we let the local election officals deal with it rather to jump to conclusions on the internet. (even though this method is known to fix everything)

[Tunkamerica]

15. the way to clear this up is to call the board of elections and ask

though i wonder how many votes are being swayed by that logo. I got tons of leaflets and flyers outside my polling place (less than five feet from the door) today and had several people try to convince me to vote for their candidate and I voted for none of them.

[Danieljay]

16. Its totally legal. When I worked the Bill Clinton campaign we sat at the registration tables...

Just checking off names of voters. No campaigning. Just checking the rolls and helping with problems.

[ronnykmarshall]

25. I did same for Gore.

BUT, we were told not to wear any campaign buttons or T-shirts. AND we were not to stand inside the polling place.

[bowens43]

20. Nothing illegal about it but you hillbots keep lying. Lies are all you have.

[ronnykmarshall]

32. Lying about what?

The OP and person who shot the video was asking a QUESTION.

Please provide samples of so called "lies" in THIS thread to back up you little shit fit.

99% of the responses are OPINIONS, not facts.

If this IS legal. So be it. But it's wrong. If people from a political camp want to help voters, that's great. But to have a sign promoting one candidate is WRONG. Polling places are supposed to neutral. This sign is not.

MY state you can't have ANY campaign related materials with 100 feet of a polling place. Looks like it's different in IN.

[DMorgan]

28. In MY polling place in another state

A police officer is there IN the polling place and two OUTSIDE, to handle problems with voting, (machines, lines, questions about anything), and problems with campaigners that don't stay so many feet away, or who stand in the street, or who are loud. Each state has it's own customs and rules and staffing.

[FuzzyDicePHL]

35. In PA

recording this video inside the polling place would've been illegal.

[durrrty libby]

37. Elizabeth White is the one that let those people have the signs in that video

GIVE HER HELL HILL SUPPORTERS!

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[sueragingroz]

39. K & R

[barack the house]

40. This is ludicrous there is no campaign information to influence voters and they are assisting voting

Where the WV WV were deterring voters. This is clear distraction from that.

[johncoby2]

42. Stewpid obama newbies.