From the LA Times:
Can people openly carry guns into polling places? Most states don’t ban them
That is true.
Good.
Growing activity from armed far-right groups and President Trump’s calls for his supporters to watch polling places “very carefully” have raised concerns of possible disruptions or voter intimidation ahead of the Nov. 3 election. States will also have to prepare for the prospect of guns being brought into voting sites — legally.
This is more of the bullshit: “the greatest threat isn’t Antifa but far-right groups and Proud Boys.”
No, Antifa is actively burning down cities, intimidating people, killing people, but the Democrats, Media, and Deep State all support Antifa, so you get bullshit threat assessments.
Antifa has threatened to poll watch. They have embraced their Klan roots and the Klan did that too.
The actual threat is the Black Bloc beating up suspected Trump voters, but they won’t tell you that.
Only about a dozen states — including California, Arizona, Florida and Georgia — explicitly ban open and/or concealed carry in voting sites.
In much of the country, voters may bring firearms into polling places, as long as the buildings being used for voting don’t generally ban them — as many schools, government buildings and churches do. Those rules vary at the state and local level.
Check your state and find out what the rules are. Be law-abiding.
Federal law bans voter intimidation, which can include obstructing access to polling places, addressing voters while wearing uniforms or military-style clothing or writing down people’s license plate numbers. Brandishing a weapon in a threatening way would also qualify as voter intimidation.
Which side has been the one taking pictures of license plates and doxxing people?
Dale Ho, director of the ACLU’s Voting Rights Project, said his group is preparing for a range of scenarios that’s broader and potentially more extreme than what it has anticipated in the past. That planning isn’t based on any specific threats, and Ho emphasized that he didn’t want to alarm people or make voters think his group is predicting outbreaks of violence. Instead, the preparation grew from its reading of violent events at protests in Kenosha, Wis., and Portland, Ore., and the rhetoric coming from the White House.
Actual Leftist fires and murders vs. Trump saying something, so of course, the threat is Trump and not the people setting fires.
I need to check up on the laws in Alabama and where my new polling place is located, but if you can carry at your polling place, this year is probably a good idea to carry. This year is different, they are right about that, they are just telling you to be worried about the wrong crowd.
I voted yesterday. In our small town my polling place is at the municipal building, so no guns.
What disturbs me more, though, is that after I fill in the little circles (SAT flashback) and feed it into the machine, said machine goes DING and increments the vote count. But there’s no way for me to verify that what it scanned and recorded, was what I marked.
That … really troubles me this election cycle.
True. But at least with that kind of paper ballot it is possible to have a recount, executed manually using Mark 1 eyeballs.
This is why there needs to be a Federal law mandating that all elections must be done with paper ballots, designed so the voter can verify what’s on the ballot before submitting it, and suitable for manual recount by the unaided eye.
No more voting machines with levers, let alone PCs (“touch screen voting machines) running old versions of WIndows with closed-source application software written by incompetent (at best) outfits like Diebold.
I have been bitching about this for years, falls on deaf ears.
The Democrat Party is engaged in a cold war against their political adversaries – classical liberals (nonconformist Democrats), libertarians, conservatives, and Republicans in general. They have been preparing the groundwork for the destruction of our constitutional Republic through the use of highly coordinated information operations – the main tactic in their political warfare campaign to influence American public opinion to support their policy goals and objectives. They have adopted the template of information operations laid out in DoD publications and modified it to suit their specialized applications in the political realm. They have run many large and small information operations during the Age of Trump with varying degrees of success. And they will continue to run more in the future as they attempt to gain total political control of America’s cultural and political institutions.
https://uncoverdc.com/2020/10/23/democrat-media-information-operations/
Sadly, Texas prohibits firearms in the premises of the polling place.
If carrying concealed, take care that you carry in a way that doesn’t print. Even if it’s legal to carry concealed, some leftist scum will pitch a fit and possibly get you arrested if they see any suspicious bulges. (Talk about double entendres…) The less visible you are, the better.
The other day my lady let me know I was printing, at in my weapon was visible. So I was very careful for the rest of our trip and at the end she said I had done nothing even after she had told me.
Turns out that the muzzle end of my shoulder carry was poking out through the ventilation opening under my arm. Doh.
Have somebody you trust look for the print and make sure you understand what they are actually seeing