I went to vote today in Georgia USA. People showed up wearing bed sheets over them. What is this supposed to communicate exactly??
this post was submitted on 21 Oct 2024
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I'm thinking they might be ghosts! It's close to Halloween and they sometimes creep out of the graveyards to illegally vote and steal our democracy!!!
Lol seriously though, if I had to guess it's just people wearing ghost costumes for Halloween even though it's slightly early.
On a darker note, they might be really afraid of people seeing who they are and coming after them for "voting the wrong way" but I really doubt that.
Ohhhh that's even darker than I dared to guess... Voter intimidation? They're probably looking for "illegal voting" and know their actions are frowned upon by most so they dont want people to recognize them in town.
Kinda really stupid because you immediately draw attention to yourself dressed like that.... But then again the type of person who falls for the Trump election lie doesn't exactly have logic listed among their strengths...
If this is true and you can have a decent account and some evidence of what happened it might be worth dropping a "tip" about it to your local news station
That's almost certainly super illegal. Unless there's a weird local exemption It's illegal to misrepresent yourself as a government official (this usually comes up with law enforcement but it covers all "regular" public employees - i.e. not private contractors hired by the government).
Please report this and include as many photos or other physical proof you may have as I really suspect it's an attempt at voter intimidation.
So I take it to mean the poll workers or someone else actually asked them to leave? If so, that's something. This is absolutely shitty, politicking at the polling place at best, and I agree with the others: you show up to a political event in the south wearing a white sheet, then pointy hood or not, we all know what you're evoking.
Sure but what happened in the civil rights era was that anyone who was black was assumed to be voting against the racist as fuck candidate... so if you showed up and were black you'd be run off, beaten, or lynched.
Let's say you're me - I'm a man with a beard who wears skirts - I show up to vote and take a wild guess who I'm voting for... it's not the chucklefuck that wants to persecute all my trans friends. Based on appearance alone (including swag you might have pinned to your bag) you could try and make a guess about how someone may vote.
Agreed on most points but any political "swag pinned to your bag" would be illegal within 100 feet of a polling place
A pride flag pin is not political swag but also correlates very strongly to voting blue, and far-right nutjobs could run with that
Yeah, or something like "My body my choice" there are lots of pins or patches you could draw inference (sometimes incorrectly, of course) from.
That is true, I was just trying to think of some possible reason to want to be hidden. I didn't even realize they were filming people until the OP replied to me. That made it way worse :/
That first paragraph might be you using absurdist humor. Or it might be a legitimate quote from trump during a televised debate I missed.
I CAN'T TELL ANYMORE!!! EITHER ONE IS JUST AS LIKELY!!!!
What even IS this decade??? Back in 2016 I used to joke that maybe the world really did officially end in 2012 and this was all just reality starting to distort and fall apart.
Now I'm not even joking. What evidence do we have that this is real life???
Donald Trump could very well win. That's proof this is reality, because any movie maker worth their weight in salt would never have such a cartoonishly horrible person be a viable candidate in a realistic setting lol
And yeah, the first part was just dumb humor lol felt kinda bad after I sent it because this is no stupid questions and my joke could be read as condescending or something