bases_loaded
Posts: 6,912
Nov 2, 2010 7:59am
Walking into my polling location this morning.
I was a campaign manager a few years ago for a local state rep race. We know the rules, someone intentionally ignored them this morning.
I was a campaign manager a few years ago for a local state rep race. We know the rules, someone intentionally ignored them this morning.
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vball10set
Posts: 24,795
Nov 2, 2010 8:00am
^^^enlighten us--what rules were broken here?
OneBuckeye
Posts: 5,888
Nov 2, 2010 8:10am
There are signs all over the front yard of my polling location for the last 2 years. (As long as I have voted at this location.)
bases_loaded
Posts: 6,912
Nov 2, 2010 8:17am
vball10set;541819 wrote:^^^enlighten us--what rules were broken here?
There is a certain distance, around a polling location that political signs are not allowed to be posted. Same with not being allowed to wear a T-Shirt for a candidate while in the location.
bases_loaded
Posts: 6,912
Nov 2, 2010 8:19am
Fab4Runner
Posts: 6,196
Nov 2, 2010 8:23am
At least you didn't run into this:
bases_loaded
Posts: 6,912
Nov 2, 2010 8:40am
Fab4Runner;541833 wrote:At least you didn't run into this:
If you are suggesting that is illegal, than you are racist...or something I forget the rules.
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vball10set
Posts: 24,795
Nov 2, 2010 9:16am
nothing that a loaded .45 wouldn't take care ofFab4Runner;541833 wrote:At least you didn't run into this:
CenterBHSFan
Posts: 6,115
Nov 2, 2010 9:22am
Fab4Runner;541833 wrote:At least you didn't run into this:
He's just gearing up to kill some cracker babies!
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Squirmydog
Posts: 288
Nov 2, 2010 9:28am
I believe the rule is that as long as they are great than 50 feet from the building then they are fine. Our polling place has little green flags that mark the no campaign zone.bases_loaded;541818 wrote:Walking into my polling location this morning.
I was a campaign manager a few years ago for a local state rep race. We know the rules, someone intentionally ignored them this morning.
A friend of mine who is a judge visited a polling place in 2008 and saw poll workers wearing candidate's badges. One of the workers recognized her and threw her out screaming at her that "This is a (name of famous animal mascoted party) place and you need to leave!" He shouted the name of her opponent as she left. That, my fiend, is illegal.
krambman
Posts: 3,606
Nov 2, 2010 9:28am
bases_loaded;541818 wrote:Walking into my polling location this morning.
I was a campaign manager a few years ago for a local state rep race. We know the rules, someone intentionally ignored them this morning.
I live above a polling location and the distance is 50ft from the entrance. Those signs look well beyond 50ft from the entrance to that building.
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Squirmydog
Posts: 288
Nov 2, 2010 9:29am
This is probably ok, because Eric Holder has not prosecuted it.Fab4Runner;541833 wrote:At least you didn't run into this:
grodt
Posts: 1,588
Nov 2, 2010 9:30am
The poll workers make a perimeter with flags outside the polling location and no campaign propaganda can be placed inside that perimeter. Outside of that however is fair game.
krambman
Posts: 3,606
Nov 2, 2010 9:34am
grodt;541889 wrote:The poll workers make a perimeter with flags outside the polling location and no campaign propaganda can be placed inside that perimeter. Outside of that however is fair game.
Correct. We have signs posted outside of our building that says "No campaigning beyond this point." Outside of that signs are fair game.
bases_loaded
Posts: 6,912
Nov 2, 2010 1:07pm
Those are at the parking lot entrance. Whether or not that's 50ft is up to the law. But the fact they were placed there after 5 am knowing the rules its extremely unethical.
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I Wear Pants
Posts: 16,223
Nov 2, 2010 1:25pm
That's definitely more than 50ft. I don't see what's unethical about it.
krambman
Posts: 3,606
Nov 2, 2010 1:32pm
bases_loaded;542133 wrote:Those are at the parking lot entrance. Whether or not that's 50ft is up to the law. But the fact they were placed there after 5 am knowing the rules its extremely unethical.
How is that not ethical? The parking lot entrance is not the entrance to the polling place. The doors are the entrance. Go to any polling place in the country and you'll see tons of signs being put up near by the morning of an election that weren't there before. And what does the fact that they were placed there this morning have anything to do with it?
When I was in college one of our buildings was a polling place (it was an old hotel that looked a lot like the place in your picture) and every time there was an election there would be 20 campaign signs in the grass near the entrance to the parking lot on election day that weren't there the before. Nothing illegal or unethical about it.
ts1227
Posts: 12,319
Nov 2, 2010 1:34pm
The signs on the front of my polling place today said "no electioneering within 100 feet of the entrance". There's a sign up at the driveway, but that's a few hundred feet from the front door so it's fine.
I fail to see how it is unethical if they meet the criteria, which it looks like it's close. I assume they waited to put the signs up because someone who didn't know what the law was that wasn't involved with the Board of Elections would rip them down. Since they were ripped down, the poll worker is wrong or they were too close.
ORC 3501.30(A)(4)
I fail to see how it is unethical if they meet the criteria, which it looks like it's close. I assume they waited to put the signs up because someone who didn't know what the law was that wasn't involved with the Board of Elections would rip them down. Since they were ripped down, the poll worker is wrong or they were too close.
ORC 3501.30(A)(4)
Two or more small flags of the United States approximately fifteen inches in length along the top, which shall be placed at a distance of one hundred feet from the polling place on the thoroughfares or walkways leading to the polling place, to mark the distance within which persons other than election officials, observers, police officers, and electors waiting to mark, marking, or casting their ballots shall not loiter, congregate, or engage in any kind of election campaigning. Where small flags cannot reasonably be placed one hundred feet from the polling place, the presiding election judge shall place the flags as near to one hundred feet from the entrance to the polling place as is physically possible. Police officers and all election officials shall see that this prohibition against loitering and congregating is enforced.
When the period of time during which the polling place is open for voting expires, all of the flags described in this division shall be taken into the polling place and shall be returned to the board together with all other election supplies required to be delivered to the board.
BORIStheCrusher
Posts: 1,893
Nov 2, 2010 2:27pm
Big deal, is seeing a sign on your way in really going to affect who you vote for?
coyotes22
Posts: 11,298
Nov 2, 2010 2:49pm
BORIStheCrusher;542246 wrote:Big deal, is seeing a sign on your way in really going to affect who you vote for?
This. I already knew who I was voting for. A little sign, was not going to change my mind.
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Bigdogg
Posts: 1,429
Nov 2, 2010 3:09pm
When I went to vote I ran in to this Tea Party guy
darbypitcher22
Posts: 8,000
Nov 2, 2010 4:45pm
^^^^
he looks rad.
I didn't really have to worry about that today, didn't vote. I could have done an absentee ballot but just didn't feel like it.
he looks rad.
I didn't really have to worry about that today, didn't vote. I could have done an absentee ballot but just didn't feel like it.
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Bigdogg
Posts: 1,429
Nov 2, 2010 7:44pm
ccrunner609;542551 wrote:and did you have a problem with him?
Is that Fab?
Not anymore then I would have had with the other guy.
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bartsimpson
Posts: 168
Nov 3, 2010 12:24am
If a stupid sign in the ground outside your polling place is going to affect who you do (or don't) vote for.....you really need to reconsider whether or not you're intelligent enough to be voting in the first place.
That being said....I do know people who have (or haven't) voted for a particular candidate based solely on whether they liked what they looked like on their commericials. I told them directly to their face that the fact that they are allowed to cast a vote is what's causing most of the problems in America today....lol
That being said....I do know people who have (or haven't) voted for a particular candidate based solely on whether they liked what they looked like on their commericials. I told them directly to their face that the fact that they are allowed to cast a vote is what's causing most of the problems in America today....lol