Lawsuit challenges Michigan secretary of state's ban on open-carry guns at polls on Election Day

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A lawsuit filed Thursday challenges the legality of Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson's ban on open-carry firearms at polling sites on Election Day, a directive she says is meant to 'protect our voters from intimidation, threats and harassment.'

"The presence of firearms at the polling place, clerk's office, or absent voter counting board may cause disruption, fear or intimidation for voters, election workers and others present," Benson's guidance says.

Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson speaks in support of the United States Postal Service outside of a post office in Detroit, Aug. 18, 2020. The measures come as online accounts tied to neo-Nazi sympathizers and alt-right groups such as the Proud Boys have been generating social posts that encourage supporters to join the campaign's Election Day operations,. That includes sending out links to register for the Trump campaign's so-called Army for Trump, an effort to recruit supporters to sign up as Election Day poll watchers for the campaign.

The Boogaloo Boys stand on the steps of the Capitol Building during a rally on Oct. 17, 2020 in Lansing, Michigan. The Boogaloo boys called it a Unity Rally in an attempt to distance themselves from the Wolverine Watchmen who plotted to kidnap Michigans Governor Gretchen Whitmer."If you begin to put that idea in people's heads, that causes a reaction out of people," Davis said."People carry concealed weapons all the time, every single day.

 

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Vote ByeDon

American society, which has to be armed and bring guns, is scare to live in. There are many mass shootings in the US. 🤔 In Japan, where the gun (sword) control is strict, arming is prohibited anywhere in Japan, so there are no cases of being killed by guns among citizens.

MAGAManiacs terrorizing America for the Russians. For free!!!

Voting stations don't need civilians with guns just police and some security. If anybody's going to commit voter intimidation let the cops lock them up.

Just VOTE; Leave your guns at home!

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That really seems like a no brainer. If you can’t wear a MAGA hat or a Vote Biden t-shirt at the polls, you certainly shouldn’t be able to wear a gun.

dullards with no lives

Gademit! Guns polling sites?!!!! INCREDIBLE!!!!!

Anybody who is so afraid of fellow voters that they need to be armed should stay home and mail in their ballot.

And that is a fact. To control idiots and their lunatic agendas.

Always somewing nut afraid to walk around without looking like an extra in a movie about wing nuts.

There is only one reason someone would openly carry at a polling place and that is to intimidate voters, to show them who got the power in the event of a conflict.

They want people to take a gun but you can’t wear a candidate shirt or anything. Yep, that makes sense.

I agree with her on that on Election Day there should be no guns and I hope the judge throws out the lawsuit. After what's been happening.

She will lose!!

Poor Boys for Trump

How ridiculous that it's ever been allowed.

Polling places? They need to protect the State Capital

Just because you can’t take your guns to a polling place this is gov’t overreach Get a grip! “'It's quite evident that this is the classic example of the most egregious government overreach that I've ever witnessed,' Davis said.”

Pretty much how normal sane people view these ammosexuals.

This is a Michigan I knew nothing about.

funny how all these idiots care about the firearms amendment but don't care about others. Especially, the many that broke by Trump.

Why the eff does anyone need to open carry into the polls? Or carry at all, for that matter.

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