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From: goodwille <goodwille@...>
Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 05:02:48 +0000
Subject: [rhobetabeta] Fw: What Can I Wear to the Polls on Election Day?
To: Third Ward Community Cloth <communitycloth@...>, Rho Beta
Beta <rhobetabeta@yahoogroups.com>, Eric Goodwine
<ericgoodwine@...>, Houston Lawyers Association
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-----Original Message-----
From: "RYAN HAYGOOD" <rhaygood@...>

Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 00:27:37
To: RYAN HAYGOOD<RHAYGOOD@...>
Subject: What Can I Wear to the Polls on Election Day?


26 September 2008

Friends,

A widely circulated email recently claimed that wearing a t-shirt,
hat, button other or paraphernalia bearing a candidate's name or image
violates "the law" and is grounds for a poll worker to turn a voter
away from the polling place.

The truth is that laws regarding what voters can wear to the polls on
Election Day vary from state to state.

While most states prohibit campaigning for a candidate within a
certain distance from a polling place, every state does not consider
the garments or paraphernalia a voter wears to vote campaigning.

In Alabama, for instance, a voter can wear campaign clothing or
paraphernalia to vote but cannot distribute campaign literature within
30 feet of the polling place.

On the other hand, voters in Georgia, New Jersey, New York, Texas and
Indiana, among others, are explicitly prohibited from wearing campaign
clothing or paraphernalia within a certain distance from the polling
place and may be required to cover or remove it before they vote.

Because the rules vary widely from state to state, voters must prepare
to vote now by contacting their respective local elections officials
or Secretaries of State to determine what can be worn to the polls on
Election Day.

Also, please click the following link to access "10 Things All Voters
Need to Know":
http://www.preparedtovote.org/docs/TenThingAllVotersNeedtoKnow.pdf

Onward!





Ryan Paul Haygood
Co-Director, Political Participation Group
NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF)
99 Hudson Street, Suite 1600
New York, New York 10013
rhaygood@...
212.965.2235 (direct)
212.226.7592 (fax)

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