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Subject: Re: [OT] What's next for Kamala Harris?
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The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:
>Wed, 20 Nov 2024 09:59:09 -0500, Nyssa <Nyssa@LogicalInsight.net> wrote:

>>. . . 

>>If he wasn't and was referring to the idiot polling place person who
>>bitched about his red hat, that's okay too. At least the election 
>>folks will be aware of what happened and give some better training
>>to others in future elections. . . . 

>That's how I read it and such a hat wouldn't be allowed inside the
>polling station in Canada since it's not allowed to wear anything that
>indicates how you're voting inside the station. Outside of course is a
>different story with the only exception being you're not allowed to
>set up a gauntlet voters have to go through to enter the polling
>station.

>I would assume most sane people would consider a red MAGA hat as
>indicating how you're voting. (Unlike the "I voted!" stickers they
>often offer you on the way out)

The baseball cap he wore wasn't a MAGA hat.

C'mon, H.G. I don't believe for a moment that electioneering laws in
your country are significantly different than in ours.

No one can claim that a red baseball cap is an exclusive symbol of the
Republican Party. It was a college's color and had a college's logo on
it. It was absolutely not electioneering. He made the point that the
specific polling place official was acting in an illegal partisan manner
when he swapped it for a blue baseball cap with a different college's
logo and wasn't prevented from wearing it.

If the voter isn't wearing anything with a candidate's name or some sort
of partisan political slogan, then it's not electioneering. He can wear
any color he likes, even if it's colors selected by the candidate for
use on yard signs. It's words, not colors, that determine electioneering.