Why are people doing this at voting locations in the USA?
Why are people doing this at voting locations in the USA?
I went to vote today in Georgia USA. People showed up wearing bed sheets over them. What is this supposed to communicate exactly??
This seems like a violation of Georgia’s laws against wearing masks in public. If they were trying to speak with or otherwise interfere with voters I encourage you to report it: https://law.georgia.gov/resources/election-fraud-complaint-hotline
Seems like run of the mill super illegal voter intimidation - maybe aimed at discouraging black voters by invoking images of the klan?
Weird part is they weren't arrested... Like tf? There are police
Report that shit to the Georgia Attorney General. That's voter intimidation. https://law.georgia.gov/resources/election-fraud-complaint-hotline
So, unfortunately, the police are often not politically neutral and usually skew towards a conservative bent - this is also likely explicitly outside their jurisdiction since it involves a federal election (and America has a really dark history of law enforcement interfering with elections) so, charitably, they may have been unable to act even if they wanted to.
The correct authority in this case would be one of these folks I believe (I'm not a Georgia native):
https://sos.ga.gov/form/stop-voter-fraud
https://law.georgia.gov/resources/election-fraud-complaint-hotline
https://www.eac.gov/voters/register-and-vote-in-your-state?field_state_target_id=18206
In actuality, it might be best to start by just calling these folks (phone number from the page above).
404-656-2871
People keep forgetting rage against the machine lyrics. They never stopped being relevant.
Some of those that work forces, are the same that burn crosses
Some of those who work forces are the same that burn crosses
Who do you think is under the sheets
They are police
FTFY
There is nothing weirs about it - those that work forces are the same that burn crosses
There are police under the sheets?
Klan.
I don't care the intent or the season or the laws or the lulz. You wear a white fucking sheet to a polling place in a southern state, it looks like the fucking Klan. Fuck them.
I'm thinking they might be ghosts! It's close to Halloween and they sometimes creep out of the graveyards to illegally vote and steal our democracy!!!
Lol seriously though, if I had to guess it's just people wearing ghost costumes for Halloween even though it's slightly early.
On a darker note, they might be really afraid of people seeing who they are and coming after them for "voting the wrong way" but I really doubt that.
They were filming and had fake county employee badges, immediately trespassed and removed
Ohhhh that's even darker than I dared to guess... Voter intimidation? They're probably looking for "illegal voting" and know their actions are frowned upon by most so they dont want people to recognize them in town.
Kinda really stupid because you immediately draw attention to yourself dressed like that.... But then again the type of person who falls for the Trump election lie doesn't exactly have logic listed among their strengths...
If this is true and you can have a decent account and some evidence of what happened it might be worth dropping a "tip" about it to your local news station
That's almost certainly super illegal. Unless there's a weird local exemption It's illegal to misrepresent yourself as a government official (this usually comes up with law enforcement but it covers all "regular" public employees - i.e. not private contractors hired by the government).
Please report this and include as many photos or other physical proof you may have as I really suspect it's an attempt at voter intimidation.
immediately trespassed and removed
So I take it to mean the poll workers or someone else actually asked them to leave? If so, that's something. This is absolutely shitty, politicking at the polling place at best, and I agree with the others: you show up to a political event in the south wearing a white sheet, then pointy hood or not, we all know what you're evoking.
Maybe a YouTube prankster?
It’s close to Halloween, dressing up in white hoods is similar to the KKK attire, it’s a hot election season as usual…all sounds perfect for some idiot pranker to use for a new video.
Isn't the vote secret, so nobody can come after them for voting the wrong way?
Sure but what happened in the civil rights era was that anyone who was black was assumed to be voting against the racist as fuck candidate... so if you showed up and were black you'd be run off, beaten, or lynched.
Let's say you're me - I'm a man with a beard who wears skirts - I show up to vote and take a wild guess who I'm voting for... it's not the chucklefuck that wants to persecute all my trans friends. Based on appearance alone (including swag you might have pinned to your bag) you could try and make a guess about how someone may vote.
That is true, I was just trying to think of some possible reason to want to be hidden. I didn't even realize they were filming people until the OP replied to me. That made it way worse :/
That first paragraph might be you using absurdist humor. Or it might be a legitimate quote from trump during a televised debate I missed.
I CAN'T TELL ANYMORE!!! EITHER ONE IS JUST AS LIKELY!!!!
"The democrats are using the dead to illegally vote in our elections, it's true. It's halloween season, the ghosts like to come into the city, and vote. They're not sending their best. Their sheets are stained, folks. Dirty laundry. They even sent the ghost of an Ohio pet cat that they ate. I saw it, very sad. Said meow. We tried to get the Scooby gang to help, but the Scooby gang has gone woke. Everybody is gone woke. They're stealing the country...."
What even IS this decade??? Back in 2016 I used to joke that maybe the world really did officially end in 2012 and this was all just reality starting to distort and fall apart.
Now I'm not even joking. What evidence do we have that this is real life???
What evidence do we have that this is real life???
Donald Trump could very well win. That's proof this is reality, because any movie maker worth their weight in salt would never have such a cartoonishly horrible person be a viable candidate in a realistic setting lol
And yeah, the first part was just dumb humor lol felt kinda bad after I sent it because this is no stupid questions and my joke could be read as condescending or something
Cosplaying as discount klansmen by the looks of it.
I'm guessing their excuse would be some BS statement about voter fraud and "dead people voting". Obviously they don't want to be identified.
People are voting in the US? I thought that was in November?
Each state has different rules. Some allow "early voting" on selected days prior to the main election day. This allows people who can't get time off from work on the main day to work it into their schedule.
Absentee or mail-in votes are also done early. Where allowed.
Votes aren't counted until the main day.
Some states allow counting for early/mail in/ absentee voting before election day but they all prohibit release of counting information early.
Early in person voting has started in several states.
Just guessing here, but either:
a) Cosplaying as KKK to intimidate black people. Pretty low quality costume, so I doubt it. b) Cosplaying as ghosts to intimidate
blackpeople. Who you gonna call?
c) Dressing in white to not heat up as much in direct sunlight. Considering the sunglasses, it wouldn't surprise me if this is the reason. I've never been to Georgia, but I hear it's pretty hot.The general election is two weeks away. What are people voting for in Georgia today?
Some states have early in person voting instead of limiting it to a single day.
Early voting and mail-in absentee votes are a thing where Republicans haven't restricted them. It makes sense to spread it out if you look at how wait times for even early voting can get into several hours. Why in the world would anyone want to try and do it in one day? How could all the votes be possibly done...oh, that's why.