Man in Trump shirt with gun outside Virginia polling place
And authorities are fine with this because the state is open carry.
Click here for reuse options!A man wearing a Donald Trump shirt and carrying a weapon stood outside a voting location in Loudoun County, Virginia, on Friday. Authorities in the nation’s richest county are apparently OK with that.
Erika Cotti encountered the man when she went to vote at the county’s registrar’s office, she told The Huffington Post. Virginia doesn’t have early voting per se, but voters can cast in-person absentee ballots for a host of reasons, like if they’re going to be out of the county or city on Election Day…
Conservative media outlets and Republicans in Washington spent significant time and resources attacking the Obama administration because they disagreed with the Justice Department’s handling of 2008 incident in which a man stood outside a polling place in Philadelphia holding a nightstick. The man who promoted a video of that incident is Mike Roman, who has reportedly been working on election protection efforts in connection with the Trump campaign.
Friday’s incident in Loudoun County, involving a white Republican, seems pretty unlikely to attract the same type of attention.
“I had my 9-year-old son with me. I felt intimidated,” Cotti said. “And I had to explain to my 9-year-old why a man with a 357 magnum is standing outside the polling station.”
Cotti said the man offered her a Republican sample ballot, which she declined.
“He’s like, ‘Who are you going to vote for, crooked Hillary?’ And I was like, that’s really none of your business,” Cotti said, adding that the man was standing in the sidewalk outside of the office when they left and blocking their path.
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7 responses to Man in Trump shirt with gun outside Virginia polling place
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eyelashviper November 5th, 2016 at 09:01
Open carry may be legal, but harassing voters and campaigning outside a polling place are against the law, anywhere.
Larry Schmitt November 5th, 2016 at 10:31
If he was blocking the sidewalk, he was probably in violation. There are signs clearly stating how close those engaged in electioneering can get. I would have been much more blunt if he had offered me a Republican ballot or asked me whom I was voting for. If I had my way, they’d have to be across the street. Once Election Day arrives, the time for advertising is over.
Kick Frenzy November 5th, 2016 at 15:50
The guy with a nightstick was intimidating.
This guy with a gun is intimidating.
Anyone carrying a weapon, any weapon, as a poll watcher is intimidating and should be illegal.
As far as I’m concerned, poll watching shouldn’t even be allowed as a thing.
(Unless it’s an unmanned video camera.)
Larry Schmitt November 5th, 2016 at 16:01
I agree. They’re only there to intimidate. They wouldn’t know fraud if it shook their hand.
Snick1946 November 5th, 2016 at 17:11
This is a sneak preview of Tuesday. Clowns like this will be at a lot of polling places, getting in the faces of anyone who ‘doesn’t look right’; like minorities. I hope I am wrong but we could see violence in some places. We are getting to be a third world country.
Arthur Gane November 5th, 2016 at 21:27
You cannot even hold a sausage sizzle near a polling booth in Australia.
Note for Americans: Sausage sizzle is an aussie tradition using BBQ’s
Arthur Gane November 5th, 2016 at 21:28
How come he still has a gun if Obama confiscated all of them during Jade Helm when he overthrew democracy in Texas and installed a far left socialist junta?