Firearm Prevents Police Officer From Casting Vote

[DickWanner]

Some pantywaist probably didn't want this to happen again....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Athens_(1946)

-Mike

That's an awesome story Mike, I never heard of it before.

And after doing some searching I can't seem to find anything about a law banning LE from openly carrying into a polling place, even though I swear I've read something somewhere in the past. Probably someone just full of it or blowing smoke up my ass.

 

[MaineCWPtraining]

Have Gun, No Vote

November 10, 2010, by Bob Barr

The right to vote is an aspect of American life we all take for granted. We expect to be able to show up at our polling place every other fall and cast our ballot for the candidates we believe will best represent us in our local government, in the state legislature, or in Washington, DC. That is, unless you are a uniformed police officer attempting to exercise your right to vote at a voting precinct in Bangor, Maine supervised by an idiot.

James Dearing, a Bangor, Maine police officer, showed up two weeks ago – in his regular uniform — to cast an in-person absentee ballot at Bangor Civic Center; the only early voting location in the city. He had voted many times in the past with no problem.

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