trumpians block entrance to polling place in Fairfax, VA

[iluvtennis]

Last edited Sat Sep 19, 2020, 06:05 PM - Edit history (1)

Anthony Tilghman@AnthonyTilghman
1/Trump Supporters continue to protest at the #EarlyVoteVA site in Fairfax VA. They have to move voters inside because they are blocking the site for voters

2/As you can see here they are blocking the entrance to the voting site. #EarlyVoting #VA #FairFax

3/Update: Most of the #MAGA Supporters cleared out when extra security came to monitor the voting site.

Link to tweet

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What a country we live in where some think they have the right to vote, but others don't.

[StTimofEdenRoc]

1. Why are they not being arrested?

[rockfordfile]

4. I agree

[Maru Kitteh]

5. x1000 to the 10nth power.

[crickets]

13. Why are they not being arrested and charged with sedition? nt

[musette_sf]

20. + 1

[uponit7771]

22. +1, can you imagine if this was 99% non whites !?

[Cha]

53. My First Thought!

[DBoon]

2. What do they think this is, Mississippi in 1965?

Come to think of it, yes they do

[Thekaspervote]

3. Happy to hear they were cleared away..we cannot let them do this kind of shit

Interference with voting is a felony. I hope some of them are charged!

[RobertDevereaux]

6. Virginia police, you must have photos and videos of these motherfuckers.

This is a serious crime.

ARREST THEM NOW!

[OhioBlue]

7. This is all Trump's attack against mail in voting is about

The Trump campaign/RNC plan to suppress the vote in heavily Dem precincts through long lines and voter intimidation. THIS is why they keep arguing for in-person voting while sending mailings and text messages to Republicans, encouraging THEM to vote by mail.

[Me.]

8. And They're Not Voting Because?

[lindysalsagal]

9. When magat, klansman starts tweeting about this, please post here. Thanks.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

10. Please tell me they were at the very least made to go away.

Hopefully arrested for obstructing traffic or some such.

[ooky]

11. Just a group of morons.

Walk around them and go vote.

[Maru Kitteh]

12. We have ALWAYS lived in that country.

What a country we live in where some think they have the right to vote, but others don't.

WHEN have we not lived in a country where this was not the case?

Women
Minorities
Non-landholders
And now: Those who do not worship at the altar of this cult.

[iluvtennis]

41. When I look at it critically, I have to agree. It's just the idealistic in me who wants to see

it differently.

[gristy]

14. I'm no lawyer, but I suspect there is all kinds of law breaking here

Just off the top of my head:
No campaigning or campaign materials within some distance of any polling place
No obstruction of voting
No intimidation of voters


The great thing about early voting is our side gets to see what they are up to early on and gear up the response in the courts and on the ground.

[BComplex]

16. That's it. They've shown their hand, and now we have to get out in front of this.

Trump terrorists truly do intend to block voting all across the country. He has told them to do that.

[sarge43]

27. Yes, it's a federal felony

Physically blocking the entrance to a polling place comes under the Voter Intimidation Act 18 USC, Title 18-594.

Up to one year in a federal slam and up to $1,000 fine

[wnylib]

34. Quick action/response needed.

We need to put a video of this into a Biden ad NOW. Undercut them and expose them so that when Trump and other R candidates go to court with challenges after they lose, they will have zero credibility.

We could also use some Woodward/Bernstein type investigative reporting to reveal who has something on several appointees and elected politicians, what it is, and how it is being used. Even just one such revelation would be a tremendous help in saving the republic by opening people's eyes to what is happening.

[sinkingfeeling]

15. Residents need to demand arrests.

[BComplex]

17. The governor needs to call out the national guard.

Haul their asses in and charge them with terrorism. Send their asses to gitmo.

[kentuck]

18. I think the law requires at least 100 feet from polling place...

...for any campaigning?

[leftieNanner]

28. That's the case in California

When I lived there, I was a Poll Inspector for many years. Other states have different distance requirements. Some are 50 feet.

Now I'm in Oregon and the only electioneering we have to worry about is if I wear my "Nevertheless she Persisted" T-shirt while we sit at the kitchen table and fill out our ballots.

[DeminPennswoods]

42. In Pennsylvania, too

nt

[HipChick]

44. 40ft in Virginia..

[Takket]

19. okay now lets send a single black woman to MAGAt country....

and have her sit on the curb reading a book 100 yards from a polling place. someone will call the cops and say they feel "threatened" and she'll be harassed for her ID and eventually arrested. with any luck she won't be gunned down.

[Bayard]

21. This is what elbows are made for

Get the hell outa the way!

[KY_EnviroGuy]

23. State Laws on Electioneering Boundaries

State Laws on Electioneering Boundaries
National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS)

Link: http://www.nass.org/sites/default/files/surveys/2020-01/state-laws-polling-place-electioneering-Jan2020.pdf

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For Virginia.....

Virginia

During the times the polls are open and ballots are being counted, it shall be unlawful for any person (i) to loiter or congregate within 40 feet of any entrance of any polling place; (ii) within such distance to give, tender, or exhibit any ballot, ticket, or other campaign material to any person or to solicit or in any manner attempt to influence any person in casting his vote; or (iii) to hinder or delay a qualified voter in entering or leaving a polling place. (Va. Code Ann. § 24.2-604(A))

Our law in KY is 100-ft....

Kentucky

No person shall electioneer at the polling place on the day of any election…within a distance of one hundred (100) feet of any entrance to a building in which a voting machine is located if that entrance is unlocked and is used by voters on election day. Electioneering shall include the displaying of signs, the distribution of campaign literature, cards, or handbills, the soliciting of signatures to any petition, or the solicitation of votes for or against any bona fide candidate or ballot question in a manner which expressly advocates the election or defeat of the candidate or expressly advocates the passage or defeat of the ballot question, but shall not include exit polling, bumper stickers affixed to a person's vehicle while parked within or passing through a distance of one hundred (100) feet of any entrance to a building in which a voting machine is located, private property …, or other exceptions established by the State Board of Elections through the promulgation of administrative regulations. (Ky. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 117.235(3))

KY............

[SMC22307]

55. That's an excellent link... thanks. (n/t)

[marble falls]

24. If they're fifty feet from the door and are not blocking people, there's not much to do about it ...

If they're blocking voters, they're blocking Trump voters, too.

[LisaL]

26. Somehow I don't think there are many Trump voters

waiting in that line, because voters are behaving responsibly, in masks and socially distancing.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

37. I don't see where anybody's being blocked. NT

[HipChick]

45. I was there around noon...

they were blocking folks...people had to be escorted into the polling station..

[mahatmakanejeeves]

47. Fine. An eyewitness. That's who I want to hear from.

Now I'm interested.

Thanks.

[Ferrets are Cool]

25. WHERE THE FUCK ARE THE GD POLICE???????????????????

FUCK THESE ASSHOLES!!!!!!!

[Traildogbob]

32. Right

No rubber bullets, no gas, no micro wave beams, no armed 17 year old pukes protecting democracy? Surprised the police are not there passing out 3/4 pound burgers, fries and bud lights to the protestors. This is an instance where I, never mind. Don’t wanna give em a heads up with my plan. I collect poisonous snakes and train them.

[DemsIn2020]

38. I don't know...

The off duty ones are probably shown in the photo..

[world wide wally]

29. That, for me, is when it comes to blows.

And I am a peaceful person.

[Illumination]

30. They're just FEARFUL their cult leader will be going to prison...

[NoRoadUntravelled]

31. Trump said he was going to send law enforcement to polling places

Turns out special security was needed to protect voters from his Red Hat wearing, law breaking Magats.
That one was just too easy to predict.

[djacq]

33. Fairfax is true blue Virginia's 11th congressional district;

Represented by Democrat Gerry Connolly.

Democrat David Bulova is the Delegate for the 37th District

Hillary Clinton won Fairfax 61.3%

According to 538, Joe Biden is 96 in 100 to win Virginia.

Trump Supporters efforts are futile.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

35. Is there another video of this, because I don't see that the entrance is being blocked.

The sidewalk is wide open. Look at the end.

They're demonstrating. That's their right. This is especially true in Fairfax Country, home of the person who wrote the First Amendment, and location of the university named after him.

Go ahead and alert. It won't be the first time.

[geretogo]

36. A good spray of pepper spray in their faces might move the pod people away .

[mahatmakanejeeves]

39. Here's a Google map of the Fairfax County Government Center. The area is wide open.

The video clip does not persuade me that demonstrators are blocking access to this building.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Fairfax+County+Government+Center,+12000+Government+Center+Pkwy,+Fairfax,+VA+22035/@38.8537329,-77.3588232,407m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x89b64f6ca43f738b:0x8b6998f97661ad49!8m2!3d38.8540845!4d-77.3565793

[LisaL]

40. There should be no election materials close to the polling place.

How do they have a right to demonstrate in there? They were blocking the entrance and officials made them move.
"Tilghman tells FOX 5 that the protesters first blocked the entrance to the polling site before officials forced them to move 40 feet away as required by law:"
https://www.fox5dc.com/news/trump-supporters-protest-outside-fairfax-early-voting-site

[mahatmakanejeeves]

43. I'm looking at the video now. I don't see that access to the building is being blocked.

If they blocked the entrance to the building, then someone should come up with video of that. I haven't seen it yet.

It's a huge plaza. It would take more people than are in the video to fill it.

Thanks.

[HipChick]

48. Folks were being met outside and escorted into the building to vote

[mahatmakanejeeves]

51. Got it. Thanks.

I still don't see the point. Don't Trump supporters vote early? Granted, there aren't too many Trump supporters in Fairfax County, but there must be some wanting to vote early.

I'm in Alexandria. I just handed my ballot application to the letter carrier an hour ago. I'll be turning in the actual ballot itself in person. I'll take a dim view of anyone who tries to keep me from doing that.

[HipChick]

54. I think they were just there to harass...must have come in from Manassas

I'd would have gone to blows if they tried me...

and I'm normally a quiet person..

[mahatmakanejeeves]

56. My main suspect was Eugene Delgaudio. He lives in Loudoun County.

I checked his Twitter account, though, and he wasn't gloating about it.

https://twitter.com/eugenedelgaudio

[HipChick]

46. You cannot access the building..

without using the path that they were blocking...

[mahatmakanejeeves]

49. Okay. Now I get it. Thanks.

Surely someone pulled out his or her phone and captured that.

[Tribetime]

50. How do they have so much HATE of others

[Cha]

52. Rt.. I'd tell them to FO you Treasonous Assholes.. Patriots

Are Going to VOTE