{"id":1642,"date":"2008-10-29T19:24:35","date_gmt":"2008-10-29T23:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=1642"},"modified":"2008-10-29T19:24:35","modified_gmt":"2008-10-29T23:24:35","slug":"va-state-board-of-elections-wants-citizens-prosecuted-for-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/10\/29\/va-state-board-of-elections-wants-citizens-prosecuted-for-what\/","title":{"rendered":"VA State Board of Elections Wants Citizens Prosecuted for *What*?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.democraticcentral.com\/showDiary.do?diaryId=2795\">This<\/a> is beyond ridiculous:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Now, if someone comes to vote while wearing, say, an <span style=\"color: blue;\">Obama<\/span>&#8211;<span style=\"color: blue;\">Biden<\/span> button, here&#8217;s what the SBE wants the election officials to do:<\/p>\n<p>1. \u00c2\u00a0As the person to remove or cover up the button.<br \/>\n2. \u00c2\u00a0If the voter questions the authority for such a request, direct them to the &#8220;Prohibited Area Sign\/Poster.&#8221;<br \/>\n3. \u00c2\u00a0<strong>If the person refuses, to remove or cover up the button, let them vote, and then &#8220;complete an incident report,&#8221; which &#8220;should be forwarded to the locality&#8217;s Commonwealth&#8217;s Attorney by the local electoral board and general registrar&#8221; for prosecution for a misdemeanor.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So &#8212; you can wear your button when you vote, but then they&#8217;ll arrest you days, weeks or months later?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the whole thing.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;d prefer to get a hold of a copy of the guidance the author is relaying, but the author is trustworthy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is beyond ridiculous: Now, if someone comes to vote while wearing, say, an Obama&#8211;Biden button, here&#8217;s what the SBE wants the election officials to do: 1. \u00c2\u00a0As the person to remove or cover up the button. 2. \u00c2\u00a0If the voter questions the authority for such a request, direct them to the &#8220;Prohibited Area Sign\/Poster.&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-politics","category-virginia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1643,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642\/revisions\/1643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}