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Article: Right to Life aims to be seen at polls Anti-abortion group asks people to wear shirts bearing group's name while working Election Day venues.
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- Dayton Daily News
- Article date:
- July 21, 2007
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DAYTON -- Dayton Right to Life is recruiting people to work the
polls on Election Day, telling them they'll be allowed to wear shirts
bearing the anti-abortion group's name and asking them to donate the
$95 the county pays them to the organization, according to Christi
Dodson, executive director.
The plan has voter rights advocates outraged and the Montgomery
County Board of Elections planning to reconsider allowing any logos
on clothing worn by the people who work at the polls.
"You don't want people with a political ax to grind wearing their
politics on their shirt in the polling place," said Ellis Jacobs,
senior attorney for Dayton-based Advocates for Basic Legal Equality.
"I think the ...