No NRA apparel if you want to vote

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This was on the NRA's site. I don't know if this is state or federal that you can't wear political apparel while voting (never heard of that), but apparently the NRA is directly affiliated with the Republican party (at least according to one ballot worker).

http://dailycaller.com/2014/10/27/m...tructor-hat-while-voting-video/#disqus_thread

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While he was early voting on Friday, a Douglasville, Georgia man says he was asked to remove a hat he wears everywhere, one that reads “NRA Instructor,” because poll workers said it was too closely associated with the Republican party.
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My US Representative is a Democrat with an A rating from the NRA and has their endorsement. Not all Dems are antis and I'm voting for him today in early voting.
 
The NRA supports and endorses candidates that support gun rights obviously. Pretty much a no brainer on that note. There are plenty of hard line old school southern Democrats the NRA endorses and supports. So while the big picture does consist mostly of Republicans supporting gun rights the NRA does not and never has discriminated down party lines in who they support. I know this because I am the NRA and I do vote.

People of the anti-gun thinking often are of a narrow mind and choose to see and believe only what they want to see and believe which is often poor information, incorrect information or flat out lies. It doesn't get any simpler.

Ron
 
About a year after Napoleon Dynamite came out, a guy was kicked out of a local polling place for wearing a "Vote for Pedro" shirt.

I plan on wearing my NRA Instructor hat next Tuesday to vote.
 
I'm an NRA Life member but I never wear any NRA apparel (except an NRA t-shirt that I might sleep in). As a concealed carry licensee I don't think it is every to my advantage to give anyone the suggestion that I might be carrying, so NRA caps, shirts, jackets, etc. are out. I do have one NRA decal on my car back window, but that's mostly to irritate my anti-gun relatives.
 
I'm an NRA Life member but I never wear any NRA apparel (except an NRA t-shirt that I might sleep in). As a concealed carry licensee I don't think it is every to my advantage to give anyone the suggestion that I might be carrying, so NRA caps, shirts, jackets, etc. are out. I do have one NRA decal on my car back window, but that's mostly to irritate my anti-gun relatives.
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I don't even have a decal on my truck. I don't believe in advertising. Anyone who wants to know will have to ask.
 
I wasn't even aware you couldn't wear political apparel as a voter. I don't see how that's legal, freedom of speech? I can see if you're working the ballot station but as a regular joe coming in off the street to cast your vote, how can you be denied the ability to vote based on what your tshirt says?
 
The NRA's traditional policy has been to endorse and support pro-gun candidates regardless of party, especially incumbents who need to be rewarded for casting difficult votes. This policy has served gun owners well over many decades.

However, reading the -- often hysterical -- editorials in the American Rifleman magazine, there seems to be a definite pro-Republican bias. In a way, this is understandable, given the national platforms of the two parties and the way these are expressed through the respective party leaderships in Congress.

But there's a real danger that the NRA will increasingly be seen as a mere appendage of the Republican Party. To the extent this happens, the NRA will tend to lose clout among the general public. It needs to remain a single-issue advocacy group unconnected to the right-left polarization in this country.

(All that being said, it would still behoove us to elect a Republican Senate majority this year.)
 
Seems about right. Strong, very strong political lobbying body.
I get a fella forgetting about his hat.
I don't get the overt, direct and vocal associating of it with a particular party coming from a poll worker.
 
That is NOT a Federal thing - more likely he offended a poll worker who is a Democrat. I work the polls and folks come in all the time with something political on. I cannot wear anything or say anything - I must appear to be impartial. We have a 100' rule as well, no solicitations by anyone within 100' of the main entrance to a polling station
 
Offended poll worker. Here in IL you can't engage in "Electioneering" within so many feet of the polling place but you'd be hard pressed to call an NRA logo or that of any other non-profit org a political endorsement.
 
Just to put this in perspective, you can't wear anything promoting a political issue at a polling place. No donkeys, no elephants, no "Anarchists Unite" T shirts, nothing. It's not just the NRA.

Although technically an NRA hat should have been OK as long as it wasn't an NRA-ILA hat. ;)
 
A shirt with a donkey in a red circle w/ a bar through it reading 'Friends don't let friends vote Democrat' will. Don't ask how I know. :D
 
Not allowing someone to vote because they had an NRA hat on was illegal.

It not about a party or candidate, which really are the only things normally not permitted in a polling place.
 
I did early voting in Fulton County, Georgia last Saturday and wore my Life Member NRA hat to the voting place. Had to disarm as it is illegal to carry into a voting precinct. There were 5 minority women in the room and I was the only voter. Nothing was said and I went straight thru the process with no issues and no comments. Sounds like my adjacent county of Douglas needs some learning for their poll workers!
 
Just to put this in perspective, you can't wear anything promoting a political issue at a polling place. No donkeys, no elephants, no "Anarchists Unite" T shirts, nothing. It's not just the NRA.

Although technically an NRA hat should have been OK as long as it wasn't an NRA-ILA hat.
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Not true here in FL
 
vito said:
I'm an NRA Life member but I never wear any NRA apparel (except an NRA t-shirt that I might sleep in). As a concealed carry licensee I don't think it is every to my advantage to give anyone the suggestion that I might be carrying, so NRA caps, shirts, jackets, etc. are out. I do have one NRA decal on my car back window, but that's mostly to irritate my anti-gun relatives.
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I am a proud supporter of our Right to arms and not afraid admit to it in public.

Just my take on it.
 
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