If a Rethug "challenges" my vote in Ohio, I swear I will fucking drop them

[Paragon]

Just putting it out there, lurkers. Bleeding from the nose, you'll be.

It's not violence, it's self-defense of my liberties. :)

[Wapsie B]

1. A tire iron upside the head

might get their attention.

[are_we_united_yet]

2. YO I heard that!

:toast:

[Bullshot]

3. I would consider it an equivalent to the gun fanatics' line

"They'll have to peel it from my cold hands."

[Confident]

6. Be safe...

be sure the gun fanatic doesn't have his gun before you pop him

[Love Bug]

4. They have the burden of proof, not you

No one can just walk up to you and ask you to prove you are legally registered. They have to prove you are not. If someone challenges you, tell them to put up or shut up!

[PleadTheFirst]

5. Agreed.

I'm not a violent person. Never have been. But this same scenario has been playing in my mind this week. If anyone attempts to challenge my right to vote on Tuesday, I'm afraid 4 years of anger might just come screaming to the surface to be taken out on this pawn in their game.

[colonel odis]

7. didn't a federal court in cincinnati rule thursday or friday that they

have to have personal knowledge of why your vote should be challenged? otherwise, it's a fifth-class felony?

that should keep a lot of them away from the polls. and if they challenge you, unless they have personal knowledge that you're not the person you say you are or don't live where you say you live, then they'll be risking criminal charges.

don't get me wrong; i think republicans should be cold-cocked on general principles. if it were me, i probably wouldn't punch the republican in the nose. i'd stomp the top of his foot as hard as i could, hoping to break a few bones and give him a nice limp.
plus, a foot-stomping wouldn't scare other voters in line the way a fight would. and i think republicans are hoping for violence at the polls to suppress turnout. a good foot-stomping would probably make folks giggle, to tell the truth.

[PCIntern]

8. I told one Repub guy who

mentioned to me that there might be challenges in my district that if I get 'challenged' they're definitely gonna have to call a cop to quiet me down. No physical violence, 'cause that plays into their hands. But my language can degenerate pretty quickly.

[arewenotdemo]

16. "republicans should be cold-cocked on general principles"

man, you got my vote

[FlaGranny]

18. I understand the sentiment, but I believe

it makes a lot more sense to have the person who charges a voter unfairly wind up in the pokey with a felony.

[roseBudd]

9. There're only going to challenge/attempt to intimidate African Americans

It's not as easy to profile white democrats

[0007]

10. Please be cool and arm yourself with these numbers

Vote as if your life depended on it, because it does.

Call 866 687-8683
If Poll Workers refuse you to vote for any reason
If there is a late opening or early closing of a polling place.
If your polling place runs out of ballots or has an incorrect ballot
If you experience poll worker insensitivity or discrimination in the voting process

The civil rights community have set up a toll-free Election Day hotline. This line is
staffed now and, in addition to logging your complaint, the civil rights organizations have law
students and attorneys who can provide assistance on Election Day.

the hotline number is
866 687-8683
202 457-0473 fax

[leftyandproud]

11. Take your ID and you'll have nothing to worry about.

[MockSwede]

12. Challenges

Challengers cannot speak TO the voter challenged - only to the pollworker.

The pollworker decides what to do.

The VOTER can ALWAYS vote with a contested/challenged ballot.

So, dont' "Drop them" until AFTER you vote and then get hauled away for battery! (Probably will be worth the commotion and jail time, I'm sure!)

[July]

17. Right, you don't have to show ID to the challenger.

Only to a pollworker who asks for it.

[shirlden]

13. I am a 68 year old woman

who has voted in every election since 1959 (for JFK). I am taking my heavy hiking staff with me and I swear to God, if any repug challanges my vote he will be walking without knee caps for the rest of his life.
If they want to take the angriest old bluehair they have ever encountered to jail, so be it. Seems that the GOP likes to pick on old people.......the cowards.

:argh: :mad:

[mike from ri]

14. go for it, granny!

no text

[depakid]

15. Pepper spray would probably be better

all you'd have to do is flash it at them and they'd back away... and even if ... well, let's just say it would be easier on both of your bodies.

[confrontationclaws]

19. It's not really the challenger's "burden"

at least in Florida...here, the challenger signs an oath stating why it is believed that the voter "is attempting to vote illegally." The voter then has to sign an oath stating that they "are a qualified voter." The clerk then checks the voter's information, and "shall take any other evidence that may be offered." Then the clerk and inspectors, by majority vote, determine whether the voter can vote a REGULAR ballot. If there is a "doubt" as to the challenged voter's eligibility to vote, he "shall be allowed to vote a provisional ballot."

That's how it goes in Florida, from Florida statute 101.111

It's gonna be nasty. PLEASE stay in line and don't give up!!! They just want to piss you off and send you home!!!

[Wols]

20. Right on.....

As long as it's someone I can drop- namely a woman or elderly person. If it's someone of equal or bigger size I'll have to bust out the tire iron.

[colonel odis]

21. come to think of it, if they're going to try to suppress vote in

heavily minority and working class communities, the lily-white, bow-tied republicans may be asking for more trouble.

would you like to tell a guy who slings a hammer all day he can't vote? would you like to tell a black man whose grandfather jim crow wouldn't allow to vote that you're not going to allow him to vote either?

which will force them to resort to picking on women and the elderly. maybe there are enough shirldens out there to convince them of what a bad idea that is, too.