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Protestors with a permit teargassed on the way to vote.

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In other totally-not-a-slide-into-fascism news, peaceful protestors who had a permit to march were teargassed on the way to vote.

Peaceful march to the polls in North Carolina is met with police pepper spray and arrests, causing outcry on eve of election

They have elections in all those shithole dictatorial countries too. They just make sure the wrong people don't vote.

The participants in Saturday’s “I Am Change” march had intended to conclude at an early-voting site to emphasize turnout in the final days of the presidential campaign. Those plans were thrown into disarray when law-enforcement officers in riot gear and gas masks insisted demonstrators move off the street and clear county property, despite a permit authorizing their presence.

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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 03 2020, @10:10AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 03 2020, @10:10AM (#1072403)

    Trumpies blocking public thoroughfares to slow down emergency vehicles so that Trump voters with the Covid-19 can't make it to intensive care in time, which lowers health care costs for everyone. A Public service, actually.

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  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday November 03 2020, @03:14PM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday November 03 2020, @03:14PM (#1072441) Homepage Journal

    Had to give you a funny mod for that one. The really funny part is - those people who hate Boomers should be praying that Covid-19 sweeps the nation coast-to-coast then sweeps back again, taking all the Boomers out of the picture.

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