By AWR Hawkins
Washington DC – -(Ammoland.com)- The NRA has sent a letter to Douglas County, Georgia, Board of Elections supervisor Laurie Fulton, demanding the board lift their ban on clothing with the NRA name on it.
Breitbart News reported that election officials in that county told two men wearing NRA hats that they had to remove them in order to vote. The first man was asked to remove his hat because another voter was “offended” by it. Board of Elections supervisor Fulton said the second man was asked to do so because of legal precedent.
She said, “Courts have found that anything that suggests [or is] associated with the NRA, in many people’s perceptions, is associated with the Republican Party.” Fulton said the county does not want to appear to be showing “favoritism” to one party, so people wearing NRA hats are asked to remove them before being allowed to vote.
According to The Washington Times, the NRA’s letter demands an immediate end to this “violation of the First Amendment.”
The letter says, in part:
We are writing to insist that you immediately reverse the unlawful and unconstitutional policy prohibiting citizens from wearing items bearing the NRA name while voting.
This is a serious constitutional issue…attempting to scrub the polling place of any reference to the NRA is a blatant violation of the First Amendment.
We insist you immediately abandon your unlawful and unconstitutional policy.
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About:
AWR Hawkins writes for all the BIG sites, for Pajamas Media, for RedCounty.com, for Townhall.com and now AmmoLand Shooting Sports News.
His southern drawl is frequently heard discussing his take on current events on radio shows like America’s Morning News, the G. Gordon Liddy Show, the Ken Pittman Show, and the NRA’s Cam & Company, among others. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal (summer 2010), and he holds a PhD in military history from Texas Tech University.
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