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Kaleva

(36,359 posts)
Tue Oct 27, 2020, 09:53 PM Oct 2020

Upper Peninsula county DA says ban on guns at polls won't be enforced in the county

"The ban prohibits voters from carrying firearms into polling locations, clerk’s offices, and absent voter counting boards on November 3. However, unless a court gives a clarifying ruling or legislation is made, Marquette County Prosecutor Matt Wiese says Benson’s direction will not be enforced in the county.

“We don’t disagree with her intent, but we don’t believe that there’s legal authority to outright ban firearms at polling places because of a person’s Second Amendment Constitutional right to open carry,” Wiese explained.

Wiese says he consulted the Marquette County Clerk and County Sheriff Greg Zyburt before making that decision.

Zyburt says the Sheriff’s Department won’t enforce the Secretary of State’s direction. He adds although there won’t be police present at the polls, officers will respond to any complaint of voter intimidation."

https://www.uppermichiganssource.com/2020/10/27/marquette-county-officials-respond-to-secretary-of-states-ban-on-open-carry-firearms-november-3/

I don't think the ban would be enforced by any police department in the U.P. except possibly the state police.

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Upper Peninsula county DA says ban on guns at polls won't be enforced in the county (Original Post) Kaleva Oct 2020 OP
Didn't a judge strike down the open carry ban? SheltieLover Oct 2020 #1
That may be appealed Kaleva Oct 2020 #2
It's not just Trump. CaptYossarian Oct 2020 #3

CaptYossarian

(6,448 posts)
3. It's not just Trump.
Tue Oct 27, 2020, 10:15 PM
Oct 2020

Democracy is circling the drain at all levels. They don't want us to vote...period.

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