CT Voters Urged Not to Wear WWE Merch to Polls

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Voters in Connecticut were advised by election officials today not to turn out to the upcoming Senate polls wearing WWE merchandise or it could be construed as electioneering for Linda McMahon.

The Policticowebsite broke the story quoting Av Harris, the spokesman for the
Connecticut secretary of state.

“Nobody is going to be denied their right to vote, but (election officials) may ask them to cover up a shirt, go back to the car take it off, come back with a jacket on top,”

Harris said adding that officials will evaluate people wearing WWE merchandise on a case-by-case basis.

“It may be a thing where an 18-year-old kid walks in with a Smackdown T-shirt. If the moderator determines it’s no big deal, it’s fine,” Harris said. “Forty people walking in when the Connecticut candidate for Senate is associated with the company, and her husband is the CEO — it’s a celebrity type of CEO, it’s not just a run-of-the-mill CEO of a company. This a well-known ubiquitous company.”

Linda McMahon’s spokesman Ed Patru fired back in a statement this afternoon saying there is nothing in the state election guidelines that prohibits a voter from wearing a nonpartisan piece of clothing to the polls.

“This opinion seems overtly partisan, and anytime the state starts arbitrarily denying citizens the right to vote, democracy itself is under attack,” claimed Patru. “We’re very concerned at this point that they may soon decide to prohibit Vietnam veterans from voting.”

Vince McMahon on the WWE website today also attempted to claim voters were being denied the right to vote–which he described as a violation of first amendment rights. Really hilarious stuff. Next time you go to a WWE event, try wearing a TNA or ROH T-shirt, talk to them about the first amendment, and then see what happens.

SOURCE: gerweck.net

Why? As far as I'm concerned, turning away voters that have a WWE shirt on is pointless. May even discourage voting. I see where they're coming from, but I have a counter. WWE has been promoting "Smackdown Your Vote" since a fair bit before Linda even decided to run for Senate. YEARS before. I'm sure the powers that be were A-OK with WWE shirts coming into the booths in previous years. WWE does a service trying to get younger generations to vote, so this is counter productive in my view