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10-30-2004 08:21 PM |
LOL: Ga. Voter Arrested for Wearing Costume
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Ga. Voter Arrested for Wearing Costume
October 30, 2004 10:45 p.m. EST
GAINESVILLE, Ga. - A man wearing a John Kerry T-shirt and President Bush mask at an election office was charged with disorderly conduct for breaking a law that bans campaigning outside polling places, police said.
Kevin Dodds also was charged with the seldom-invoked crime of wearing a mask. A Georgia law aimed at the Ku Klux Klan makes it illegal to wear masks except on "holidays and special occasions."
The case started Friday, the last day of Georgia's early voting period, when Dodds' wife went to vote accompanied by an infant wearing a Kerry-Edwards shirt. Poll workers asked the woman to turn the child's shirt inside out so she could remain and vote, but she allegedly refused and left.
Later that day, Kevin Dodds went to the polling place saying he wanted to protest the objection to the baby's shirt. A police report said Dodds stood outside screaming, sometimes using foul language, and refused requests to take off his mask.
When Dodds, 35, was arrested, he "reeked of alcohol," said police Sgt. Chris Robinson.
Poll workers didn't get his wife's name. A phone call to a listing for Kevin and Susan Dodds was not immediately returned.
State law prohibits campaigning within 150 feet of a polling site. Signs outside polling places explain the law, which even bans voters from wearing stickers promoting a candidate.
All the charges are misdemeanors, punishable by up to a year in jail and a $1,000 fine.
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Tempers .... Looks promising for Tuesday...
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Mark the thread, I/m telling you, lives WILL be lost.
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