Gotta love this: Stadium vote makes team colors 'electioneering' - Dallas

[Hawkeye-X]

ARLINGTON, Texas -- A warning to Dallas Cowboys fans who plan to vote in the North Texas city of Arlington: Leave your team colors at home.




The Cowboys may be known as "America's Team," but polling places are no place for fan gear, election officials say -- at least not this year.

Elections administrator Robert Parten said Monday that voters sporting Cowboys logos at Arlington polling sites will be told to cover up their allegiance to the team if they want to cast ballots.

More: http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=1905204

[rkc3]

1. My response - WTF???

[billbuckhead]

2. They want another stadium?

[crispini]

3. Sounds completely reasonable to me.

Campaigning for something inside the polling place is "electioneering" in Texas, and it's against the law.

No political chat, no pins, no political T's. AND, since the Cowboys stadium is on the ballot.... no Cowboys gear.

Makes for a nice quiet respectful voting experience. No intimidation, no aggravation, no matter WHO you are.

[rkc3]

4. Thank you for the clarification.

[SammyWinstonJack]

5. Didn't the chimp screw the taxpayers of Arlington? Seems to me I read

that somewhere. :eyes: