A poll worker was fired for telling voters to turn their 'Black Lives Matter' shirts inside out
A Tennessee poll worker was fired for asking voters to turn their shirts supporting Black Lives Matter inside out, violating his training as a nonpartisan election worker, according to a local election commission.
The poll worker, stationed at a Memphis early voting site, had told voters last week to turn their shirts inside out before allowing them to vote, said Shelby County Election Commission spokeswoman Suzanne Thompson.
Tennessee is one of several states that bans voters and poll workers from wearing clothing or accessories that endorse a political candidate, and it's not uncommon for poll workers to ask voters to remove or alter their clothing if they're wearing something that represents a candidate or political party.
But the fired poll worker, who the election commission didn't name, "brought his personal bias into the job" when he asked the voters to turn their Black Lives Matter shirts inside out, Thompson told CNN.
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