Official: Voter Clothes Should Not Matter
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HARRISBURG, Pa. — Wearing campaign buttons or a T-shirt with candidates’ names at a polling place is not grounds for preventing anyone from voting, the Pennsylvania Department of State said.
What a person wears should not matter as long as a voter does not try to campaign in the polling place, the state elections commissioner, Chet Harhut, said in a memo sent last week to county elections officials.
“Of primary concern is that no duly registered person be turned away at the polls,” Mr. Harhut said.
