{"id":1365517,"date":"2024-10-29T03:40:52","date_gmt":"2024-10-29T08:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1365517"},"modified":"2024-10-30T23:27:01","modified_gmt":"2024-10-31T04:27:01","slug":"officials-warn-voters-to-not-wear-political-gear-to-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1365517","title":{"rendered":"Officials warn voters to not wear political gear to polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/10\/2024-10-29_034023-199x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1365518\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/10\/2024-10-29_034023-199x200.jpg 199w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/10\/2024-10-29_034023-349x350.jpg 349w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/10\/2024-10-29_034023.jpg 386w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/>SMITH COUNTY \u00e2\u20ac\u201c According to our news partner KETK, Smith County election officials are reminding voters to leave their campaign gear at home when they head to the voting booth. The Texas election code is clear, stating a person can not wear political gear when heading to vote. The law prohibits political shirts, hats, signs or other campaign gear in a 100-foot area around polling stations. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a crime called electioneering. The any clothing worn can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t express preference for any candidate, measure or political party.<\/p>\n<p>In the first week of early voting, Smith County poll workers said they saw a lot of people wearing political shirts and caps when they showed up to vote. Smith County voter, Craig Pearson believes people should wear what they want to the polls. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t feel that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s right. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think it is. What are they afraid of, that they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re going to actually see an opposing opinion? Not everybody\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the same, the world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s different,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Craig Pearson, Smith County voter.<\/p>\n<p>In San Antonio, things turned violent over the weekend.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A man is now facing felony charges for assaulting a 69-year-old poll worker when he asked to take off his hat.<\/p>\n<p>Although Pearson doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t agree with the law, he said the incident was taken too far.<br \/>\nVoting early? Where to cast your ballot in East Texas<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s unjustifiable. He shouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be punching somebody just because they have an opinion or if they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re trying to uphold the law, even if it is a wrong law,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Pearson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SMITH COUNTY \u00e2\u20ac\u201c According to our news partner KETK, Smith County election officials are reminding voters to leave their campaign gear at home when they head to the voting booth. The Texas election code is clear, stating a person can not wear political gear when heading to vote. The law prohibits political shirts, hats, signs &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1365517\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Officials warn voters to not wear political gear to polls<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1365519,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/10\/2024-10-29_034023-199x200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1365517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 10:14:04","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/10\/2024-10-29_034023-199x200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1365517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1365520,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365517\/revisions\/1365520"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1365519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1365517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1365517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1365517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}