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This is why we folks need to vote as early as possible. It is not enough that Biden has a polling lead. The issue is whether we will be able to actually vote with the aggressive efforts by the Trump campaign to suppress and intimidate voters.
https://wtop.com/fairfax-county/2020/09/trump-supporters-crowd-line-at-fairfax-co-polling-site/
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Anthony Tilghman, a journalist with the Washington Informer, told WTOP that he saw about 100 people sporting Make America Great Again apparel and waving flags with Trumps name on it in the parking lot of the Fairfax County Government Center around noon on Saturday.
Tilghman said that roughly 75 of the Trump supporters soon made their way toward the front of the government center and congested the voting line that stretched into the parking lot due to social distancing guidelines. He added many of them werent wearing masks.
They start coming over to the actual voting site and then they was just yelling four more years,' Tilghman told WTOP.
CurtEastPoint
(18,638 posts)enforced? Lawbreaking cofidiots. GDMFSOBs
SoCalNative
(4,613 posts)it's only 40 feet from the entrance to the polling place. In other areas it's 100 feet.
It should be at least half a mile.
C_U_L8R
(44,997 posts)AleksS
(1,665 posts)It would be in Wisconsin. It would fall afoul to f electioneering laws here for sure.
Of course IOKIYAR.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)exboyfil
(17,862 posts)We need attack ads with this footage.
Roland99
(53,342 posts)Thekaspervote
(32,754 posts)no_hypocrisy
(46,075 posts)Even if the "protestors" were exercising First Amendment Speech Rights, they were unlawfully interfering with the rights of others to vote. There is a "neutral zone" (100 feet?) where voters can't be solicited, molested, threatened by others trying to influence their vote.
This can't be allowed to be repeated and those who participated this week must face prosecution.
a kennedy
(29,644 posts)cwydro
(51,308 posts)Its difficult to believe, but he does have supporters.
How anyone can think that monster is fit for ANY office is beyond me.
Upthevibe
(8,034 posts)Is this another time they did this? I know a few days ago they did but are they still doing it?
JI7
(89,244 posts)notinkansas
(1,096 posts)makes you think that making a nuisance of yourself in that way is going to sway opinions in your favor? I would think it would more likely do the opposite.