DO YOU NEED AN ELECTION INCIDENT LAUGH?

This really happened.

A friend of a voter who witnessed this event. The lady had gone in to vote and was told to leave because she was wearing a pink ribbon. The election staff explained that the reason she had to leave related to prohibitions on electioneering. Apparently, the staff person believes that a pink ribbon is associated with some kind of conspiracy.

The voter explained the pink ribbon is for breast cancer awareness, and has nothing to do with any political party, or any particular candidate.

The statutes are clear: Electioneering too close to the polling place.

B. Electioneering includes the display or distribution of signs or campaign literature, campaign buttons, t-shirts, hats, pins or other such items and includes the verbal or electronic solicitation of votes for a candidate or question.

There was no candidate name on the pink ribbon and nothing related to breast cancer awareness issues are on the ballot. There wasn't even any reference to a recognized political party on the lady's pink ribbon. Therefore wearing a pink ribbon for breast cancer awareness doesn't fall under electioneering.

So………… a dispute w/ county clerk's office followed, with clerk's office being told that election staff should stick to what is actually prohibited in the statutes, instead of projecting their political beliefs, or personal conspiracy theories beliefs on to voters.

The breast cancer awareness isn't on the ballot and she should be allowed to vote while wearing her pink ribbon.

Clerk informed that any election staff workers who apparently believe in conspiracies should not be projecting their personal views about some conspiracy theory involving the color pink or a pink ribbon onto a voter who is wearing a well-known, decades long symbol representing breast cancer awareness.

Even Cornell University doesn't have anything prohibiting "colors".

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/electioneering

So here's the kicker.

The fuss was about the color pink - and apparently pink ribbons stand for the "QANON" conspiracy theory, AND that when President Trump wears pinks ties he's promoting the conspiracy theories of the "QANONS"……….. and therefore the lady must be a Trump supporter and that is how she concluded the lady was "electioneering".

Needless to say - it's obvious the election staff is a CONSPIRACY NUT……… and was promptly skewered.

"The opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.”

― Sun Tzu