The polling site established in the Isla Vista Community Center has become the subject of criticism from some prominent local Republicans, claiming that campaigning was permitted at the polling place on Election Day
In an interview with News-Press, Santa Barbara County Republican Chair Bobby McGuinness claimed that voters were allowed into the polling place with a voter directory that exclusively shows Democratic Party candidates
According to a few witnesses, the Democratic lists were distributed at a table near the polling place The table was more than 100 feet from the polling place according to state election laws
Santa Barbara County Clerk, Registrar, Resident, and Registrar of Voters Joe Holland said that voters who enter with a sheet showing only Democratic candidates do not rise to the level of campaigning, as long as they do not show the voter evidence to anyone else.
“As long as they do not show it to other voters, that is okay in fact. It is preferable because that way they can go through the voting process faster”, Mr. Netherlands
According to the County’s Polling Place Coordinator’s Handbook, an electoral call is defined as « the visual presentation or audible publication of information supporting or opposing any candidate or action on the ballot paper »
Election examples include displaying the candidate’s name, appearance, slogan, buttons, shirts, hats, banners, or posters containing electoral information, circulating initiatives and referendums, and speaking to voters about the topic of ballot marking, among other things
Dennis Spangler Adams, who worked as a poll watcher on the island of Isla Vista, objected that not only was the Democratic candidate list brought in, but was left in a booth and was found by the voter and reported that a young man came to her with a Democratic voter guide, so he said he found it At the booth where he was voting, and inquired about her
Since the voting booths were supposed to be cleaned immediately upon use, Mr. Holland was skeptical of Mrs. Adams Confirmation
“In this election, it was hot and he stayed there for 30 seconds, because we cleaned every stall after every voter,” he said
Mrs. Adams also claimed that some college-aged people came to her and asked if they could vote only for the president, or if they should vote for every candidate on the Democratic list that they had chosen
Mrs. Adams said she was shocked at their lack of knowledge of civics and thought to herself, « Are these Santa Barbara educated college kids? »
According to Ms. McGinnis, there was an atrocious and accidental election campaign situation at the Westside Neighborhood Center due to a house located 100 feet from the polling site displaying the Biden Harris sign The sign was moved out of sight of the polling station
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