Timeline for Is wearing ACLU's "Let People Vote Pin" to the polling place considered electioneering?
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| Oct 28, 2020 at 17:49 | comment | added | Parker Gibson | Certainly, it seems election judges and election workers have training related to the issue, but this answer does not provide supporting case law, statutes, or legal references. I think the CNN article is interesting and related, but it is not sufficient to be called an answer to this question. | |
| Oct 28, 2020 at 2:17 | comment | added | bdb484 | Doesn't this answer beg the question? It demonstrates that there's a dispute as to what is permitted, but it doesn't tell us how the law resolves the dispute. | |
| Oct 28, 2020 at 0:43 | comment | added | reirab | @JasonGoemaat A slogan used by a candidate's campaign does indeed typically violate the electioneering rules. For example, "Make America Great Again" wouldn't be allowed or "I'm with Her" wouldn't have been allowed in 2016. | |
| Oct 27, 2020 at 23:36 | comment | added | George White | You might have it backwards - it is not an issue that liberals support BLM, the issue does BLM directly imply a candidate, party or other ballot topic. | |
| Oct 27, 2020 at 23:04 | comment | added | TCooper | @JSLavertu The quote is "That is in your handout in training that that is an acceptable thing to wear," following "Shelby County poll workers are explicitly trained not to discriminate against voters wearing clothing with a message of social justice" - I'm guessing it was a fair firing, all things considered, but there's still a case for it being an honest mistake if you don't misquote. It's widely apparent (sadly) BLM is typically supported by an overwhelmingly liberal base, and the poll worker may not have realized it is strictly a social justice movement. The article isn't definitive. | |
| Oct 27, 2020 at 14:12 | comment | added | Jason Goemaat | @Dai Interesting question. It's a slogan that one candidate uses in their campaign, but it's not the candidate's name. Maybe if it was the only slogan and it was clear that it was in support of a particular candidate. But just being an issue discussed during the campaign, even if one candidate is clearly for it and one is clearly against it is not enough. If there was an issue on the ballot for supporting or banning BLM then it would be considered electioneering, but not if it is an issue that one party supports I think. | |
| Oct 27, 2020 at 13:27 | comment | added | JS Lavertu | @gerrit From the article, the poll worker was given a handout during training that specified that BLM shirts are acceptable. Not sure it can really be considered an honest mistake if the person doesn't read their training material. | |
| Oct 27, 2020 at 12:28 | comment | added | Dai | So if I ran as a candidate with a campaign for the US to annex New Zealand’s rugby team that co-opted BLM’s name as a political slogan to that end, that would legitimately require poll workers to suppress BLM shirts? Hmmmm. | |
| Oct 27, 2020 at 9:58 | comment | added | gerrit | Scary that they were fired for what may have been an honest mistake, seems like a manager wants to shift the blame on the front line workers rather than improve training?! (Unless they were told to stop and continued still despite knowing they were wrong; the linked article does not make that clear) | |
| Oct 26, 2020 at 18:06 | history | answered | George White | CC BY-SA 4.0 |