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MCCAIN SUPPORTERS PROTEST VOTING.
Recently, group of Republicans actually protested an early voting location in North Carolina:
As you can see from these videos, no one held anything back. People were shouting about Obama's acknowledged cocaine use as a young man, abortion and one man used the word "terrorist." They also were complaining that Sundays are for church, not voting.
And I guess protesting is OK? These folks are going beyond the McCain campaign's previous attempt to demonize ACORN and doing something that looks very much like voter intimidation -- especially disturbing considering the history of racist violence surrounding voting in the South.
--Sam Boyd
COMMENTS (5)
ยง 163 166.4. Limitation on activity in the voting place and in a buffer zone around it.
(a) Buffer Zone and Adjacent Area for Election Related Activity. - No person or group of persons shall hinder access, harass others, distribute campaign literature,place political advertising, solicit votes, or otherwise engage in election related activity in the voting place or in a buffer zone which shall be prescribed by the county board of elections around the voting place. In determining the dimensions of that buffer zone for each voting place, the county board of elections shall, where practical, set the limit at 50 feet from the door of entrance to the voting place, measured when that door is closed, but in no event shall it set the limit at more than 50 feet or at less than 25 feet. Except as provided in subsection
(b),the county board of elections shall also provide an area adjacent to the buffer zone for each voting place in which persons or groups of persons may distribute campaign literature, place political advertising, solicit votes, or otherwise engage in election related activity.
from
http://ncvoters.blogspot.com/2008/09/north-carolina-elections-rumor-control.html
Posted by: Jose | October 20, 2008 5:20 PM
Yeah, I blogged this over at IIRTZ too and looked up the section jose posted. I can't believe that a sheriff stood by even if they were farther than the designated 50 feet--unless he interpreted the shouting of "cheater" and the politicking as "not hindering access harassing..soliciting votes" or he narrowly interpreted other laws relating to the intimidation of voters as being inapplicable if they are farther than the 50 foot limit.
aimai
Posted by: aimai | October 20, 2008 7:31 PM
Well the Washington Times reporter says this:
At the voting site, I asked a local sheriff monitoring the scene if the protesters were allowed. "They're fine," he said. I asked if he'd ever seen anything like that and he said he'd never seen Sunday voting.
Which is to say that the sheriff was parroting the mob's talking points about Sunday voting, which is to say that he probably thought that the attempts to intimidate black voters were just A-OK.
Posted by: Matt Weiner | October 20, 2008 8:17 PM
Those Republican hypocrites complaining about ACORN should be doing the same about the voters waiting SIX hours to vote in Florida today. But you won't hear a word from them....
Posted by: Rob | October 20, 2008 11:42 PM
aimai: I hope that a mob of this sort would not be enough to keep you or anybody else from voting. I don't expect it to go that far, but know that not even the threat of physical violence is keeping me away from the polls this election. In a perfect world it wouldn't be necessary, but I recomend volunteering as a poll watcher if you think that intimidation and harrassment might keep friends and neighbors away from voting.
Posted by: Jose | October 21, 2008 4:45 PM