Bureaucrats Threaten Businesses that have "I voted" promotions

[K. Darien Freeheart]

State regulatory officials have begun threatening businesses that offer to give free stuff to people with the 'I Voted' sticker.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/04/AR2008110401899.html?hpid=topnews

Yay government. I feel so safe and happy knowing that the screaming mobs will ensure EVERYONE (including non-voters) gets a free tall coffee and scoop if ice cream to commemorate the guns of government being passed to a new thug! W00t!

[error]

You know they have to preserve the appearance of legitimacy, and people getting free stuff for voting apparently undermines that image.

[jerry]

It's lucky for those Democrat supporters handing out cookies to the voters in Grafton that the New Hampshire Sec of State didn't issue a similar opinion.
The head of the poll workers came outside for a break and had one.  When she approached our group she smiled and asked "Where's your cookies?"  My response was "We have integrity; we don't bribe voters."