Gun carriers want old polling places

[jpak]

http://lancasteronline.com/article/local/596048_Gun-carriers-want-old-polling-places.html

Supervisors from two townships on Wednesday asked the Lancaster County Board of Elections to reverse polling place changes made last year in their municipalities.

Part of the reason they want the changes undone is so voters can exercise their Second Amendment right to keep and bear firearms.

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Conestoga resident Dan Behmer told the Election Board he's a law-abiding citizen who doesn't like being unarmed.

"I don't want to go to the polls with an M-1 strapped to my side," he said. "That's not the condition. The condition is you disarm me for one whole day, and I do not appreciate that."

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They feel naked without their big 'ol guns!

Poor babies!

yup

[xchrom]

1. not even for one day? day-yum. nt

[ileus]

2. Hope they succeed, no reason to give in to being intimidated....

at the polls....but it really only helps prevent intimidation if they're allowed to Open Carry.

[sharp_stick]

3. It takes a whole day for Behmer to vote?

maybe he should worry more about literacy than his ability to walk onto school property. Then again maybe he's worried about some grade 3 kid trying to take his lunch money while he walks from his car to the gym so he needs to pack some heat.

[louslobbs]

4. +1 lol

Lou

[petronius]

5. I think it would be more appropriate to mandate that the rules

of the property - be it school, church, mall, whatever - don't apply to the section set aside as a polling place. The conditions of access to, and behavior, in a polling place should be subject only to the uniform state laws governing elections...