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Archive for October 22nd, 2010
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Friday, October 22nd, 2010Judge rules tea party shirts OK at polling places
Friday, October 22nd, 2010Freedom of speech is “improper electioneering.”
…Owens said she remains convinced that the T-shirt at issue does amount to improper electioneering. And Owens pointed out that the injunction she agreed to applies only to next month’s election — and only this particular shirt — with no legal ruling on what happens after that.
PHOENIX — A federal judge has ordered that Coconino County reisdents be allowed to wear tea party T-shirts when they vote next month.
But what happens elsewhere at polling places in Arizona remains in legal limbo. And it still leaves in question whether such attire is proper.
The order by U.S. District Court Judge James Teilborg specifically bars Coconino County Recorder Candace Owens or any of her election workerss from blocking Diane Wickberg from voting while attired in her shirt proclaiming “Flagstaff Tea Party — Reclaiming Our Constitution Now.” Anyone else with the same shirt also cannot be barred from going to vote on Nov. 2.
Diane Cohen, an attorney for the Goldwater Institute which represents Wickberg, said the injunction is a preliminary victory. She said the fact the ruling legally affects only Coconino County does not mean election officials elsewhere are free to impose their own election-day clothing decisions.
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