Bacon King v. SOFE

[Associate Justice PiT]

     In my experience having administrated elections in the South for years, I would tend to be of the view that the votes cast by BRTD and Hashemite constitute campaigning and should be disqualified as such. It is true that campaigning in the voting booth is not well-defined in the law, so I will endeavor to explain why briefly.

     The statements that they made are politically charged in a way that a simple vote is not and are things that I would interpret in the light of campaigning if made in other threads. Editorializing of this kind has no place in a voting booth where the potential exists to prejudice voters against candidates on the ballot.

     While it is true that they gave their first preferences to Blair/Kingpoleon while attacking Kingpoleon with their second preferences, I would think about what voters will notice scrolling through the thread. Commentary of this type will stand out much more easily than a vote by virtue of its uniqueness, and the potential for a prejudicial effect with a special platform should not be underestimated. It is this example, the danger of this prejudicial effect, that forces us to have a ban on campaigning in the voting booth.