“No MAGA Allowed”: Poll Workers Deny Man His Ballot for Wearing Trump Hat — Here’s Why This Is Illegal and Unconstitutional (Video)
This is exactly the kind of nonsense that makes people lose faith in the system.
In Torrance County, New Mexico, poll workers refused to give a man his ballot because he was wearing a MAGA hat. They tried to claim it violated the state’s electioneering rules within 100 feet of the polling place. The man and other voters pushed back, pointing out that the hat wasn’t tied to any specific candidate currently on the ballot.
They were right to push back.
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You cannot be denied the right to vote because of what you’re wearing — especially when it’s political speech protected by the First Amendment. Poll workers do not have the authority to strip someone of their ballot over a hat. That’s not electioneering enforcement. That’s viewpoint discrimination, plain and simple.
Voters are allowed to wear clothing that supports a candidate or a cause. Poll workers are the ones who are supposed to stay neutral. When they start picking and choosing who gets to vote based on what someone is wearing, they’ve crossed a serious line.
This isn’t just bad policy — it’s unconstitutional. The right to vote is fundamental. You don’t lose that right because you support the wrong politician or wear the wrong hat. Attempts to ban political apparel at polling places have been challenged in multiple states, and courts have consistently protected voters’ rights to express themselves.
The fact that this happened at all shows how far some election officials are willing to go to suppress support for President Trump and his supporters. It’s the same mindset we’ve seen in other states where poll workers or officials try to intimidate or obstruct voters who don’t fit their preferred narrative.
This man did the right thing by standing his ground and demanding his ballot. Every American should be willing to do the same. If poll workers are breaking the rules and violating people’s rights, they need to be held accountable — not empowered.
You can wear what you want when you go vote. That’s the law. Anyone who tells you otherwise is either ignorant or trying to intimidate you.
The right to vote includes the right to do it while wearing a MAGA hat.
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then when people show up with rifles and end this leftist cancer, they all scratch their heads and can’t figure out how something like this could happen.
they could have seen it as political, in which case he could have simply removed it and voted, then put it right back on and walked out instead of being a gump and whimpering out without voting.
there isonly one thing that will fix it and it has the letters pb in it.
High velocity plumbum.
All that is necessary for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing.
spoiled children, married to cucks, bysh needs to be at until fluids are leaking out of every opening. thats how you fix this.
call the cops in, see how they act then, get it official then sue them all
It’s called “electioneering.” You cain’t do dat.
So what was the outcome? Denied the vote, allowed to vote, police called, attorney contacted/hired to file a court case? Did that cowboy candidate prove he was worthy of the office he was running for, or bend over and go along with the natzeee poll worker?I would have waited patiently for the police to arrive to document the event (thru their body cameras and as agents of the government) and be escorted out – As this would have benefited my case of rights being denied. The subpoena police body cams of who was involved, date/time/circumstances and any witness names …all to be recorded & used as evidence. Build your case with facts, video’s & witnesses. Don’t try a ‘he said, she said’ argument in court, you’ll lose.