Poll worker fired for turning away voters with BLM shirts

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Source: AP

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A poll worker in Memphis, Tennessee, has been fired after turning away early voters who were wearing “Black Lives Matter” and “I Can’t Breathe” shirts, an elections official said Monday.

The worker was fired Friday after officials received a call from a witness at the Dave Wells Community Center in Memphis, Shelby County Election Commission spokeswoman Suzanne Thompson said.

Tennessee law does not allow voters to wear items bearing the name of a candidate or a political party in a polling place. But state law does not prohibit statements such as “Black Lives Matter,” Thompson said.

The number of voters who were told to leave was not immediately known, but Thompson said it was only a few. The poll worker thought the statements were tied to the Democratic Party, Thompson said.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/race-and-ethnicity-elections-tennessee-us-news-memphis-24ac281ba917167d1483968b64e649c6

[Sherman A1]

1. Good

And Goodbye to them.

[EarthFirst]

2. BLM is a civil rights movement...

Not a political organization/candidate.

[Gothmog]

3. BLM shirts are not electioneering

[TNNurse]

4. The poll worker was a Trumper, you can just count on that.

[634-5789]

5. Poll worker should be jailed.

Then caned.

Fuckin' MAGAt

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

6. Was anyone turned away for wearing a MAGA hat?

Or a t-shirt with a black/white/blue "police state" flag?

[LiberalLovinLug]

7. Black Lives Matter

and another was turned away for wearing a shirt saying Water Is Wet.

"The poll worker thought the statements were tied to the Democratic Party"

along with "Wear a mask" and "Social distance"