Update on the Paraphernalia HOGWASH!

Here's some more information (fyi I'm trying to find the laws EXACT language so I can translate for you but here's something in the meantime in between time):



History of Lax Enforcement


While election and party officials are familiar with the law, the general public isn't. Voters wearing campaign buttons to the polls largely have been ignored for years, said David Epstein, a political science professor at Columbia University.


The law "is generally not enforced in New York or it's enforced unevenly. Sometimes, they'll let you wear bumper stickers though they will definitely kick you out if you start soliciting people," he said.


New York City Board of Elections Executive Director Marcus Cederqvist, though, recalled a long-ago brush with poll workers."I was forced to remove a button once," he said.


Steve Richman, the city Board of Elections' general counsel, said the law is at least three decades old - and carries a penalty for those who refuse to comply. "It's a misdemeanor -- seven months to a year in jail," said Richman. No one, though, could remember anyone being put behind bars for wearing a campaign button to the New York polls. But some officials recalled voters who went to extreme measures to try to evade the law. "One year, a voter brought in a sheet cake with a candidate's name and an inspector smeared the name with a knife," said Helen Kiggins, the commissioner of elections in upstate Onondaga County.


Phone and email messages left with the Obama campaign did not get an immediate response. Peter Feldman, a McCain campaign spokesman in New York and New Jersey said, "We are okay with the law."



*Well I talked to them and they are ok with it too! But I, however, am NOT ok with the republicans banning together to get this enforced on purpose...effin cheaters!