Grandmother Escorted From Polling Center Because Of Button
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/10208904/detail.html COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- A Colorado Springs woman who sported a button that read: "Grandmothers for Peace" as she cast her ballot early this week said she was pitched from the El Paso County Clerk and Recorder's Office. Election officials said 63-year-old Rita Ague violated a law against campaigning within 100 feet of a polling place when she tried to vote Monday. The county's acting director of the election department said it's the law. No one is allowed to wear anything political at a polling place. Ague, a grandmother of four, said she has been wearing the button for 10 years because she believes in peace. The American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado said peace isn't a political stance, and tossing Ague out of a public building was probably unconstitutional. ************************Just how stupid can we get about politics?
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/10208904/detail.html COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- A Colorado Springs woman who sported a button that read: "Grandmothers for Peace" as she cast her ballot early this week said she was pitched from the El Paso County Clerk and Recorder's Office. Election officials said 63-year-old Rita Ague violated a law against campaigning within 100 feet of a polling place when she tried to vote Monday. The county's acting director of the election department said it's the law. No one is allowed to wear anything political at a polling place. Ague, a grandmother of four, said she has been wearing the button for 10 years because she believes in peace. The American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado said peace isn't a political stance, and tossing Ague out of a public building was probably unconstitutional. ************************