Support the Panthers AND keep voting honest!
Apparently, supporting the wrong football team could mean you're trying to commit vote fraud:
Could showing up to the polls in your Emmitt Smith jersey or sending in your mail-in ballot with a stamp promoting testing for sickle-cell disease get you in hot water?Some watchdog groups claim it could, depending on who's interpreting training materials on voter fraud provided by the [Texas] state attorney general's office.
Common Cause Texas, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund and some state Democrats highlighted the concerns after obtaining copies of a PowerPoint presentation used to train law officers to monitor the primary elections for fraud. ...
"They (the examples) reflect the current law in the state of Texas regarding the conduct of elections, and they're geared toward law enforcement officials," Kelley said. ...
One of the controversial issues is this summary of section 61.010: "Other than election officials and peace officers, a person shall not wear a badge, insignia, emblem, etc. ... relating to (a) candidate, measure or political party on the ballot."
As an example, the materials list the Dallas Cowboys emblem as an item that should not be worn at the polls, and offers photos of a T-shirt of the Cowboys, the Cowboys team logo, and a cap with "Cowboys Football" on it. Violating this section of the election code is a class C misdemeanor, the training materials said.
I, for one, welcome the support of Texas law enforcement in the battle to keep people from wearing Dallas Cowboys paraphernalia to vote ... or, for that matter, anywhere else.
Moreover, I believe I have the perfect pattern to use as a basis for designing clothing appropriate for wearing to the polls:
