GA Voter Arrested for Wearing Costume

[RebelYell]

Ga. Voter Arrested for Wearing Costume

Sat Oct 30, 2:45 PM ET

GAINESVILLE, Ga. - A man wearing a John Kerry (news - web sites) T-shirt and President Bush (news - web sites) mask at an election office was charged with disorderly conduct for breaking a law that bans campaigning outside polling places, police said.

Kevin Dodds also was charged with the seldom-invoked crime of wearing a mask. A Georgia law aimed at the Ku Klux Klan makes it illegal to wear masks except on "holidays and special occasions."

The case started Friday, the last day of Georgia's early voting period, when Dodds' wife went to vote accompanied by an infant wearing a Kerry-Edwards shirt. Poll workers asked the woman to turn the child's shirt inside out so she could remain and vote, but she allegedly refused and left.

Later that day, Kevin Dodds went to the polling place saying he wanted to protest the objection to the baby's shirt. A police report said Dodds stood outside screaming, sometimes using foul language, and refused requests to take off his mask.

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=1963&e=19&u=/ap/20041030/ap_on_el_pr/voter_arrested

[RebelYell]

1. Huh?

"Kevin Dodds also was charged with the seldom-invoked crime of wearing a mask. A Georgia law aimed at the Ku Klux Klan makes it illegal to wear masks except on "holidays and special occasions.""

[TroglodyteScholar]

2. Hmm

If voting the never-elected idiot son of a monkey out of office isn't a special occasion, I don't know what is.