Then, the lefts attack on free speech and voting rights hits home.

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“I heard a gentleman’s voice over my shoulder say ‘he can’t vote with that shirt on. You’ll have to either turn it inside out our you’ll have to leave,’” Driskill told KVUE.

The officials used the election law to throw Driskill out of the voting booth even though the shirt simply stated “Second Amendment – 1789 – America’s Original Homeland Security” on the front without any mention of a political candidate or proposition.

This is simply an attack on free speech and voting rights through the color of law as well as another example of the continued demonization of gun owners across America.

http://www.infowars.com/man-wearing-pro-gun-t-shirt-thrown-out-of-voting-booth/
 
NOVA said:
“I heard a gentleman’s voice over my shoulder say ‘he can’t vote with that shirt on. You’ll have to either turn it inside out our you’ll have to leave,’” Driskill told KVUE.

The officials used the election law to throw Driskill out of the voting booth even though the shirt simply stated “Second Amendment – 1789 – America’s Original Homeland Security” on the front without any mention of a political candidate or proposition.

This is simply an attack on free speech and voting rights through the color of law as well as another example of the continued demonization of gun owners across America.

http://www.infowars.com/man-wearing-pro-gun-t-shirt-thrown-out-of-voting-booth/
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Take it up with Texas. Btw, in 2010 the same thing happened to a voter with an Obama t-shirt.

"But Driskill was not being stopped by supposed liberal, anti-gun election workers. He was being stopped by workers enforcing Texas Election Code section 85.036. The rule states that “during the time an early voting polling place is open for the conduct of early voting, a person may not electioneer for or against any candidate, measure, or political party in or within 100 feet of an outside door through which a voter may enter the building or structure in which the early voting polling place is located.”

The offense is considered a Class C misdemeanor. Election signs surround voting locations, but they are always kept at least that 100 foot distance from the door voters enter...

In 2010, KHOU 11 News covered the same election code enforcement complaints from an outraged Democrat voter in Houston. "No, that's not gonna roll with me,” said Tamika Francis when she was turned away from a voting location because she was wearing a T-shirt with pictures of President Obama and the first family. "He is not a candidate in the Texas election so why are you denying me the right to vote,” she argued.

Election officials explained that, as the de facto head of the Democratic Party, President Obama’s image or likeness constituted “electioneering” as well. Francis either had to cover the shirt, turn it inside out, or change into a different non-political shirt if she wished to enter the polling place to cast her ballot...

http://www.kvue.com/news/Voter-wearing-pro-gun-shirt-turned-away--246554791.html
 
christiefan915 said:
Take it up with Texas. Btw, in 2010 the same thing happened to a voter with an Obama t-shirt.

"But Driskill was not being stopped by supposed liberal, anti-gun election workers. He was being stopped by workers enforcing Texas Election Code section 85.036. The rule states that “during the time an early voting polling place is open for the conduct of early voting, a person may not electioneer for or against any candidate, measure, or political party in or within 100 feet of an outside door through which a voter may enter the building or structure in which the early voting polling place is located.”

The offense is considered a Class C misdemeanor. Election signs surround voting locations, but they are always kept at least that 100 foot distance from the door voters enter...

In 2010, KHOU 11 News covered the same election code enforcement complaints from an outraged Democrat voter in Houston. "No, that's not gonna roll with me,” said Tamika Francis when she was turned away from a voting location because she was wearing a T-shirt with pictures of President Obama and the first family. "He is not a candidate in the Texas election so why are you denying me the right to vote,” she argued.

Election officials explained that, as the de facto head of the Democratic Party, President Obama’s image or likeness constituted “electioneering” as well. Francis either had to cover the shirt, turn it inside out, or change into a different non-political shirt if she wished to enter the polling place to cast her ballot...

http://www.kvue.com/news/Voter-wearing-pro-gun-shirt-turned-away--246554791.html
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Another Liberal dunce who can't comprehend the difference between a "candidate" and a "Constitutional right."

No surprise to me.
 
Truth Detector said:
Another Liberal dunce who can't comprehend the difference between a "candidate" and a "Constitutional right."

No surprise to me.
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Right Wing dunce who can't comprehend the difference between a "candidate" and someone NOT EVEN IN THE RUNNING FOR ANY OFFICE.

Both instances are ridiculous, so if you want to justify one might as well justify the other. Just as Obama could be abstractly connected to whatever Democrat candidate was running at the time, so could the second amendment be to any NRA backed candidate.

An overzealous voting center worker just trying to do his/her job? Obviously a liberal conspiracy obviously perpetrated by a mastermind leftist gun grabber. Obviously.
 
Mr.Badguy said:
Right Wing dunce who can't comprehend the difference between a "candidate" and someone NOT EVEN IN THE RUNNING FOR ANY OFFICE.

Both instances are ridiculous, so if you want to justify one might as well justify the other. Just as Obama could be abstractly connected to whatever Democrat candidate was running at the time, so could the second amendment be to any NRA backed candidate.

An overzealous voting center worker just trying to do his/her job? Obviously a liberal conspiracy obviously perpetrated by a mastermind leftist gun grabber. Obviously.
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So you, an uninformed hyper partisan dunce, thinks that wearing a shirt defending the second ammendment is the same as wearing a Pro-Obama shirt?

LMAO; you liberals are well beyond mere stupid and dishinest.
 
christiefan915 said:
Take it up with Texas. Btw, in 2010 the same thing happened to a voter with an Obama t-shirt.

"But Driskill was not being stopped by supposed liberal, anti-gun election workers. He was being stopped by workers enforcing Texas Election Code section 85.036. The rule states that “during the time an early voting polling place is open for the conduct of early voting, a person may not electioneer for or against any candidate, measure, or political party in or within 100 feet of an outside door through which a voter may enter the building or structure in which the early voting polling place is located.”

The offense is considered a Class C misdemeanor. Election signs surround voting locations, but they are always kept at least that 100 foot distance from the door voters enter...

In 2010, KHOU 11 News covered the same election code enforcement complaints from an outraged Democrat voter in Houston. "No, that's not gonna roll with me,” said Tamika Francis when she was turned away from a voting location because she was wearing a T-shirt with pictures of President Obama and the first family. "He is not a candidate in the Texas election so why are you denying me the right to vote,” she argued.

Election officials explained that, as the de facto head of the Democratic Party, President Obama’s image or likeness constituted “electioneering” as well. Francis either had to cover the shirt, turn it inside out, or change into a different non-political shirt if she wished to enter the polling place to cast her ballot...

http://www.kvue.com/news/Voter-wearing-pro-gun-shirt-turned-away--246554791.html
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As it should have....for the very reasons you posted, so its not 'the same thing' at all.....the constitution and its amendments aren't running for office....our freedoms
aren't being voted on.
You can explain that the 'desh the dunce' while you're at it.
 
NOVA said:
As it should have....for the very reasons you posted, so its not 'the same thing' at all.....the constitution and its amendments aren't running for office....our freedoms
aren't being voted on.
You can explain that the 'desh the dunce' while you're at it.
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Someone might argue that our freedoms are being voted on each time we have an election.
 
Who knew the people in Texas had gone stone cold communist under the reign of Rick Perry. I guess the whole country is going commie. The next thing you'll be telling me Black people are women are voting in Mississippi! Yeah, the whole damn country has gone commie, no doubt about it!
 
NOVA said:
As it should have....for the very reasons you posted, so its not 'the same thing' at all.....the constitution and its amendments aren't running for office....our freedoms
aren't being voted on.
You can explain that the 'desh the dunce' while you're at it.
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Ahh, but there was indeed a proposition regarding the 2nd amendment on the ballot that day, so his pro 2nd amendment T-shirt could be seen as electioneering.
 
NOVA said:
“I heard a gentleman’s voice over my shoulder say ‘he can’t vote with that shirt on. You’ll have to either turn it inside out our you’ll have to leave,’” Driskill told KVUE.

The officials used the election law to throw Driskill out of the voting booth even though the shirt simply stated “Second Amendment – 1789 – America’s Original Homeland Security” on the front without any mention of a political candidate or proposition.

This is simply an attack on free speech and voting rights through the color of law as well as another example of the continued demonization of gun owners across America.

http://www.infowars.com/man-wearing-pro-gun-t-shirt-thrown-out-of-voting-booth/
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I don't see anything wrong with what happened, nor is it even remotely an attack on free speech. Moreover, how you can say it's a liberal violation? You can't. And to try and do so only shows how of out of touch you are with today's political reality.

The radical right has made the 2nd Amendment a political issue. Such a shirt would be no different than someone wearing a pro or anti abortion T shirt. The Texas law says you can't do that. You can't even talk about a candidate in line.

It may seem like a paranoid policy, but today's society is setting that riht up.
 
jet57 said:
I don't see anything wrong with what happened, nor is it even remotely an attack on free speech. Moreover, how you can say it's a liberal violation? You can't. And to try and do so only shows how of out of touch you are with today's political reality.

The radical right has made the 2nd Amendment a political issue. Such a shirt would be no different than someone wearing a pro or anti abortion T shirt. The Texas law says you can't do that. You can't even talk about a candidate in line.

It may seem like a paranoid policy, but today's society is setting that riht up.
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The second Amendment is not an issue any more than any other Amendment or the Constitution in general......abortion is an issue.....

A shirt with a mention of the 2nd amendment is no different than a shirt that says Support America or Support the Constitution or Support the United States....
 
NOVA said:
The second Amendment is not an issue any more than any other Amendment or the Constitution in general......abortion is an issue.....

A shirt with a mention of the 2nd amendment is no different than a shirt that says Support America or Support the Constitution or Support the United States....
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And that of course is your opinion. The Texas voting station thought otherwise and viewed the shirt as a poltical statement. In my view, the 2nd amendment certainly has uncortunately become a political issue and again the voting place agreed.
 
www.infowars.com Is so full of information like the Zombies and don't take vaccines.

NONE of you are stupid. I only specify that because I don't want to hurt your feelings.............................................................................
 
ZappasGuitar said:
Ahh, but there was indeed a proposition regarding the 2nd amendment on the ballot that day, so his pro 2nd amendment T-shirt could be seen as electioneering.
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If that was indeed the case, you have a point.

http://law.onecle.com/texas/election/85.036.00.html

§ 85.036. ELECTIONEERING PROHIBITED. (a) During the time
an early voting polling place is open for the conduct of early
voting, a person may not electioneer for or against any candidate,
measure, or political party in or within 100 feet of an outside door
through which a voter may enter the building or structure in which
the early voting polling place is located
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In New York I've seen people enter polling sites wearing all kinds of candidate paraphernalia. And NEVER seen anything done about it. In NYC, the police oversee every polling site, and the definition of "electioneering" they work with is an active effort to campaign, handing out flyers or talking...

T-shirts, hats, buttons, etc., worn by individuals voting, I would consider passive electioneering.

I don't know a single thing about the case law behind the electioneering laws, but I suspect there is a distinction.
 
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