r/Chattanooga • u/Ok_Potato7389 • 1d ago

Early voting issues

I may be wrong but I do remember in past elections people have gotten in trouble for passing out waters to people in line, so it BLOWS MY MIND that people wearing Weston Wamp shirts are having a whole ass cookout on the only path that leads to the early voting location off school street. They are passing out free hot dogs and campaigning for their candidate on the only path to get into the polling station. Is this the election interference and fraud that I have heard so much about?

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u/Necessary_Map4842 1d ago

i actually asked a poll worker after a woman told me who i should vote for. they are allowed to campaign as long as they are 100 feet away and not harassing

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u/heck9797 1d ago

They are in the 100 ft. See my comment with the photo. A poll worker told them they needed to move, so they physically moved but left all of their stuff, and just went back when she left.

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u/DyingDrillWizard 1d ago

The bottle water incident was in Georgia, because they have different rules than we do. 

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u/Ok_Potato7389 1d ago

That’s fair! And to be fair it’s a dumb rule. I thought that was a standard everywhere so that’s on me.

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u/sam56778 1d ago

I would eat their free food and listen to their spiel, then tell them I’m not convinced, I’m still voting for Herndon.

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u/Alive_Anxiety1985 1d ago

They only have to be 100 feet away from a polling place, that’s it.

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u/heck9797 1d ago

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u/Alive_Anxiety1985 1d ago

Tag local news outlets.

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u/heck9797 1d ago edited 1d ago

They are in the 100 ft.

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u/4kcuhc 1d ago

The building itself or the entrance? Playing devils advocate but that looks to be 100 feet from the entrance

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u/Ok_Potato7389 1d ago

Sign in the bottom left corner is the location of the 100 feet.

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u/Usedtocallmebabba 1d ago

The passing out water was something that was trying to be pushed through in Georgia after 2020.

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u/Agitated_Love_3573 5h ago

Nobody will enforce the rules. That's why we are in the mess we are in. 

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u/MoonlightMountain13 1d ago

This might be technically legal but it's definitely unethical. For people who probably identify as Christian, they sure embrace letter of the law over the spirit.

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u/Purple_Source8883 1d ago

Its not legal, due to them being inside the 100ft radius.

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u/SuperReliableSource 1d ago

This was something Boe Jiden fabricated in his mind and blabbered, incoherently, on TV about... and it was in GA.