A New Jersey woman tore off her top, swung it like a lasso in defiance and voted in her bra after being told she couldn’t wear a MAGA hat and Trump shirt at the polls.
The white-haired woman was casting her ballot early at a firehouse in Hamilton Township, about five miles east of Trenton, on Oct. 26 when a poll worker asked her to take her pro-Trump hat off and get a jacket from her car to cover her shirt.
Jill Moyer, the Mercer County Board of Elections chairperson, tried to tell the woman she would hold her place in line.
“Before I could get it all out, she took off her shirt and flung it around,” Moyer told NJ.com.
The bra-zen woman flipped poll workers the bird and shouted, “Suck my c–t,” witnesses said.
“This is why I vote Trump,” she added, according to a since-deleted Reddit post showing the woman wearing silver hoop hearings and a nude bra.
Moyer went to call the police but the unidentified woman quickly cast her ballot and left.
Jersey’s electioneering law bans any political gear that can be “read or viewed to identify support or opposition of a candidate.”
The post, later shared and deleted by author and Kamala Harris surrogate Mark Greene on X, caught the attention of Trump running mate, Sen. JD Vance, who shared it.
“What a patriot,” Vance wrote, according to screenshots.
“I’d buy that lady a beer,” one man commented on social media.
Others disagreed.
“Why can’t people just respect the rules and stop treating the workers with disrespect,” one woman opined on Facebook.
“I find this to be ridiculous,” another Jersey woman commented about the election rules. “You’re standing in line to vote. I don’t think a shirt or hat will influence who I vote for. My mind is made up.”
Each state has different laws on “electioneering,” according to the National Conference of State Legislatures, and many voters are unaware of the rules.
Another woman in the Garden State was asked to remove her “Handmaid’s Tale” costume, a symbol used in reproductive rights protests, before voting, NJ.com reported.
The heated political climate has almost led to blows in other parts of the country.
A brawl broke out at a South Carolina polling site when a man was told he couldn’t vote with a hat reading “Let’s Go Brandon,” code for “F–k Joe Biden.”
Shocking video shows the man point his finger in the face of one the female poll workers before she begins hitting him.
The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division is investigating the incident.
South Carolina law prohibits voters from wearing anything that displays a political party, candidate name or ballot issue.
In New York, however, the law allows apparel or buttons that express political viewpoints, including MAGA messages — as long as they don’t specifically advocate for or against a candidate or ballot proposal, according to officials.
“New York’s anti-electioneering law was intended to prevent the political campaigns from intruding into the polling place,” said Kathleen McGrath of the state Board of Elections. “It was not designed to prohibit political expression generally.”
Marie Ragonese, 72, and her husband Angelo Ragonese, 75, cast their ballots early in Whitestone, Queens, decked out in pro-Trump gear, but didn’t have a problem.
Marie donned a Trump 2024 shirt that showed him moments after being shot at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Her shirt read, “Fight, fight, fight.”
