TNS: Police arrest, move voter registration volunteers at Fahrenheit 9-11

TNS: Police arrest, move voter registration volunteers at Fahrenheit 9-11: "With the release of Michael Moore�s polemic, Fahrenheit 9-11 movie theaters across the country have been faced with an uncommon sight -- volunteers walking the grounds and setting up tables in an effort to register filmgoers to vote. In most places, such efforts have gone off without a hitch, but in a few places civic-minded volunteers have run afoul of cinema managers and the law.

At a theatre in Porterville, California a group of volunteers who were registering people to vote was forced to move off the property of the Galaxy 9 theater, which is housed in a privately owned shopping center. Though a 1980 US Supreme Court Ruling affirmed that free-speech rights must be granted in private shopping centers because they are quasi-public areas, the group was moved across the street from the theater."



by Brendan Coyne
The NewStandard