Message to All Poll Workers on Election Day: Please Protect Women Voters Today

Seems Some of Their Husbands Are There to Make Sure They Vote for Trump

Nov 05, 2024

The reports from the field are numerous and offensive: Men accompanying their wives or girlfriends to the polls and insisting on standing there in the booth or at the polling station, hovering, lurking and making sure they don’t vote for Kamala Harris.

When news of this started breaking a few weeks ago I had to check my calendar. Sure enough, it was 2024! The 21st CENTURY!!

WTF!!!!!!!!!

Men have been literally standing guard at election sites making sure their significant (?) others are not lying when they’ve promised their man “I’m voting for Trump!”

As it turns out, many of “their women” have had NO intention of voting for Trump — and when their watchful Eye (“Under His Eye”) catch them marking an “X” by Harris’ name or filling in the little oval bubble on the ballot, voices are raised, yelling ensues and election workers have to rush over to break up the dispute. Some men have had to be escorted away.

One poll worker commented: “At first when I saw the husband going into the booth with her, I thought it was kinda sweet. Then all of a sudden all hell breaks lose. She tried to vote for Kamala — and he wasn’t going to allow that!”

The law in every state is the same: ALL voting is private and secret. No one, not even your spouse, has the right to know how you vote. In fact, it’s illegal for anyone to try to discover how you have voted. And yet, in this election, MAGA men have bullied their way into the polls — and some election workers have had their hands full.

I couldn’t believe this was going on. But no more. On Sunday, a friend and fellow filmmaker witnessed an altercation at a Brooklyn voting site where a Hasidic husband followed his wife to her voting station and hovered over her to see how she was voting. The woman was not going to call out for help, but an election worker figured out what was going on and walked over to intervene. The man was livid, started in with something about his spousal rights, and he was separated and escorted away.

Wow. And apparently he was not the first. This has happened in the Baptist South, in the rural Midwest, and, yes, even in Deep Blue NYC.

So here is my plea to the election workers of America this Election Day morning:

PLEASE PROTECT WOMEN VOTERS!!

THEY HAVE A LEGAL RIGHT TO VOTE IN PRIVATE!!

DO NOT LET ANY MAN INTERFERE WITH THEM. DO NOT LET THEM IN THE BOOTH. CALL IN THE POLICE OFFICER STANDING BY! A CRIME, A FELONY, IS BEING COMMITTED WHEN A WOMAN CAN’T VOTE.

It is unconscionable and unbelievable I even have to make this plea. And to all of you fellow voters today, pay attention and look out for the women who are voting at your polling site. Too many men are feeling like today is their “last stand“ to protect their “way of life” — where men are in charge, where men call the shots, where the gender with the missing second X chromosome rules. And why shouldn’t they believe that? That’s the system we’ve maintained for the 248 years of our American existence. Where no woman has been handed the keys to the Oval Office.

That may all come to a beautiful, righteous crashing end in, oh, say about 12 hours from right now. BOOM!

Let’s all be a participant in this historic moment. Let’s all stand for women today. Because without them, without their full undeniable, inalienable rights, this simply is no Democracy.

And I will not stand for that for one second, no matter how much you yell in my face that God declared this, or that your Bronze Age belief system demands it.

Step out of the way, sir.

Your time is up.

Photo by: CNN; Michael Nagle/Redux; Jill Nash; Olivia Dreizen Howell; Jenny Dreizen

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