Blue movement. Are you wearing blue when you vote?

[ffr]

No rule against suggestive colors. You just cannot campaign or wear campaign gear while voting. Cyan blue is acceptable.

Food for thought.

[jberryhill]

2. Whether it is "campaign gear" is not up to you, but up to whomever is running that polling location

You can go vote, or you can get into an argument with whoever is in charge of that location.

http://www.dallasnews.com/news/2016-presidential-election/2016/10/27/texas-man-arrested-wearing-trump-hat-deplorables-shirt-polling-place

Texas man arrested after wearing Trump hat, 'deplorables' shirt to polling place

[Bucky]

8. Trump hat isn't allowable. But a shirt that says "basket of deplorables" is not electioneering

I assume he was arrested for acting like a dick about it. When I was an election judge I would routinely ask people to remove electioneering items from their person and never had a word of complaint.

[jberryhill]

12. What is and is not, is not up to you

Are you running my polling place?

[Bucky]

13. Right, there are rules and laws against electioneering.

If you lived in my precinct when I was a judge, then yes, I would've been running your polling place.

Why you so mad at me?

[jberryhill]

15. Mad?

I'm perfectly calm. I don't even know who you are, so I can't imagine what makes you think I'm angry.

Yes, there are all kinds of rules. When you go to a polling place, you are not the person who decides whether or how the rules apply to what you are wearing.

This is about the fourth OP on DU encouraging people to make some kind of fashion statement at the polls. It too may be interpreted in all kinds of ways by people who read it.

If people want to make a political statement by wearing something in order to make a political statement, and then argue that they are not trying to make a political statement by what they are wearing, that's fine. But the decision is not theirs.

[Bucky]

18. You word choice seemed pretty confrontational.

What is and is not, is not up to you.

Are you running my polling place?

It'd by useful in the future to be aware that use of second person and phrases like "X is not up to you" can be construed as confrontational. That's what gave me that impression, FYI

[MiniMe]

3. I did, yesterday

Love early voting!!

[ffr]

4. Love early voting too. So relaxing and the atmosphere feels fun.

Wished I had thought of this earlier, before I voted though.

[WillyBrandt]

5. No way -- actually think this is bad

The polling place and booth is a sacred democratic space, and I like the ritual of a secret ballot and people not really knowing what people will do. It's good to not have a partisan current (if we can avoid it) at polling places

Just my holier-than-thou opinion

[GulfCoast66]

6. No.

That would be incorrect use of the future tense.

I wore blue when I voted for Hillary Clinton.

Specifically a light blue dress shirt and navy blue wool trousers.

They almost perfectly matched the 2 blue colors used on her signs.

[Bucky]

7. Blue Lives Matter

Oh dear, that might only confuse things

[Grey Lemercier]

28. hmmmm

[cagefreesoylentgreen]

9. I was scared of getting tossed out

So no. Because that morning I voted my only clean blue shirt I had was a Star Trek TOS science shirt leftover from a convention earlier this year. I seriously considered it though, doing the full costume, but decided that might weird people out a bit too much.

[Coyotl]

10. Freepers need to know that blue jeans mean you support Dems.

and don't even look at the sky

[texanwitch]

14. I am.

See what happens.

[StevieM]

17. I will where blue jeans, blue boxer shots, a blue shirt and a blue jacket.

You have persuaded me.

[ffr]

20. You go!!!

[TuxedoKat]

19. I will most likely

wear blue because I usually always do, and white as well for the Suffragettes.

[LisaL]

21. No.

I don't think it makes any difference as to what color I wore when I voted, as long as I voted.

[Awsi Dooger]

22. Including visor

I found a blue Ben Hogan visor

[ffr]

23. Nice!

[LeftInTX]

24. I wouldn't want to draw attention to myself while voting.

As a matter of fact, I quietly complained to the clerk about some inappropriate electioneering when I voted the other day. If I had been all blue, the clerk may not have taken me seriously.

[pnwmom]

25. How about a red power jacket?

But we vote by mail here.

[Cha]

26. I didn't know that rule about not

wearing buttons or gear @ the polling place.. so in 2006 when I went to vote for Michael Arcuri for our Rep in upper state NY I wore a campaign button of his.

No one said anything to me but I remember some people were looking at me and smiling.

I was lucky!

Arcuri, a Democrat, was the representative for New York's 24th congressional district from 2007 to 2010.

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/michael_arcuri/412224

Thanks, ffr

[yortsed snacilbuper]

27. My polling place is a church,

I wear my Atheist tee shirt.