Comments on: GOP, Dems battle over Pa. voter dress code

By: Jay from Nashville

Jay from Nashville — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:16:53 +0000

Does the Constitution say something about “no shirt, no shoes, no vote?” So, a possee of old busybodies can congregate at a polling location and toss out voters who don’t dress the way they like? Do we have to wear a Dick Cheney-style blue dress coat and a smirk to get in? If grandma does’t like my earrings, do I get the boot? Yep, the Repubs are looking for a new way to scare off people who “don’t look like them”. Maybe we could have Carson Kressley at the door to stop people still wearing yellow 80s power ties and 1970s blow-dried evangelist hair.

By: Morgan

Morgan — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:20:56 +0000

Just ridiculous, who cares as long “the private” areas of skin are covered?

and while we are on “and they go to church” I am a church-going gay liberal Democrat concerned about environment, global warming, the needy, public transportation alternatives, clean energy where possible, and about social justice for the least of our society.. the stereotypes about church goers are just that, stereotypes. I (and many other people regardless of sexual orientation) do not fit the stereotypes so many gay people have here of church- Church-goers are just as varied as anyone else.

By: jibii

jibii — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:56:54 +0000

Oh, thank you Republicans, for guarding me from the nebulous and evil “what if”s!

Is any person seriously going to change their vote simply because a bunch of other people are wearing shirts supporting a candidate? Pfft.

By: Bob from Arlington, VA

Bob from Arlington, VA — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:38:31 +0000

When you’re in the voting booth, you can’t SEE anything, so what does it matter what people wear?

I can understand about “musical hats”. Anything that has to do with the sense of sight is not going to bother someone sitting in a voter booth. But what about the other senses? Hearing, that is distracting, smell, that’s just disgusting, touch, well you do need to know which button/lever/what-have-you you’re pushing, and taste, well that’s just unsanitary. Though, this does leave the opportunity to blind someone before they reach the voting booth!

By: Jon

Jon — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:31:37 +0000

As one watching the election from north of the border, all I can say is; how the mighty have fallen. Has America really come to this?! Is the freedom that once existed there completely gone? Sad…..so very very sad.

By: Peter-Nicholas

Peter-Nicholas — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:24:16 +0000

Leave it to the evil republicans
to come up with another way to
disenfranchise voters, mostly
minorities who have been stopped
from voting in the past from
people like this. And they go to
church! Shame on them and may they
and their kind be punished!