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In reply to the discussion: A poll worker in West Hollywood this morning. Isn't this shit illegal? [View all]ShazzieB
(16,273 posts)But in Illinois, you are assigned to work at a specific polling place/precinct, and you can't just randomly show up somewhere else. If you tried that here, you'd be sent packing pronto; cops would be called if you refused to leave.
Same thing would happen if you showed in campaign gear like that oaf. You'd be out on your ass so fast your
head would spin, and your name would be stricken from the list of election workers for the county. Election judges (as poll workers are called here) are appointed to 2 year terms, so you could always reapply later and hope no one in the county clerk's office had a very long memory. But again, if you showed up dressed like that and/or showed up someplace you weren't assigned, you'd be summarily ejected, police called if necessary.