Voting Kilted

[Robert Lamb]

Here in Oregon we vote by mail so I could vote in the alltogether if I was a mind to.
Robert "the kilted" Lamb

[cessna152towser]

I think the kilt will work well for you as a party supporter at the polling station. One of our local councillors regularly canvasses kilted at elections accompanied by his wee scotty dog. One of the few occasions when I wear trousers - as an election official there is a requirement not to wear any clothing which would imply any preference for one political party rather than another - a kilt would imply support for the Scottish Nationalists.

[Riverkilt]

Hey Graham,

What a great deal that is. Voting is so much fun (I'm kinda vocal..."Take that you rogue!" as I mark my ballot) but voting kilted is pure joy.

A couple years ago I did have an incident. My polling station is at a Methodist Church in town. Out in the parking lot was a Navajo lady in full Traditional Navajo dress who was doing research for a college paper she was doing on voting. She was standing just outside the signs for the 75 foot limit on campaigning. When I finished voting I stopped to talk with her.

While we were chatting, her in full Navajo garb, me in full kilt turnout, a very sourpuss old lady came charging out insisting that we were too close to the building. The voting area was inside and the doors closed but she was some sort of a poll watcher. We told her we weren't even talking politics. She didn't care. She insisted the 75 foot limit sign was too close to the building and we'd have to move back. So we did.

Then she went inside and got a guy with a tape measure to reposition the 75 limit sign. Turns out the sign we were beyond was about 175 feet out already and she had to move it way in toward the building. That was fun to watch.

Looking back, she was more than likely reacting to our "different" dress or was an outright racist towards the Navajo lady...but no way to know...maybe just a control freak.

Ron

[Tattoo Bradley]

Turns out the sign we were beyond was about 175 feet out already and she had to move it way in toward the building. That was fun to watch.

HAHAHAHA! I bet that was a HOOT!

[James MacMillan]

We volunteer my Lodge for voting, and one year we had some demonstrators. You should have seen them when this old, fat, bearded guy in a kilt came out to ask them to move.

They didn't know what to do, bottom line, is they just left. I never even got to find out what they were yelling about???

Reverse power of the kilt?

[davedove]

I'm not sure if the candidate who invited me to do this actually knows I wear a kilt all the time, so...it will be interesting!

If the candidate does know you wear the kilt, it may be a campaigning move. If it works anything like it does here in the States, many times people will vote for someone out of a list simply because they remember them.

So, it might spur someone to vote for the candidate that had "the guy in the kilt" working for him.

[GMan]

But Graham, you are such a natural, it may be because he knows that you are a natural kind of guy.