SAN ANTONIO — Two propositions on Bexar County’s Nov. 4 voting ballot will prevent San Antonio Spurs fans and fans of the San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo from sporting their fan gear during this year’s election.

What You Need To Know

Spurs and rodeo apparel is banned from polling locations and within 100 feet of entrances

If voters do show up with banned gear, poll workers will request they either change or turn their shirt inside out. Those who fail to comply will be asked to leave

Despite some resistance, a previous election in Tarrant County set a precedent for not allowing team gear

Early voting runs Oct. 20 through Oct. 31. The deadline to register to vote is Oct. 6, and the deadline to request a ballot by mail is Oct. 24

Since two ballot items, Proposition A and Proposition B, involve the San Antonio Spurs and San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo, Bexar County Elections Administrator Michele Carew said that representing either organization at voting polls will be considered campaigning, according to KSAT.

Spurs and rodeo apparel is banned from polling locations and within 100 feet of entrances. If voters do show up with banned gear, poll workers will request they either change or turn their shirt inside out. Those who fail to comply will be asked to leave.

Many fans expressed frustration with the rule.

“We’re really big fans, so to go and rep our team and then for that to kind of be taken away is kind of insane, actually,” Spurs fan Kayle Norris told KSAT.

Despite some resistance, a previous election in Tarrant County set a precedent for not allowing team gear.

“It’s been more than 20 years, but there was an election in Tarrant County that had to do with moving the Dallas Cowboys Stadium to Arlington,” Carew told KSAT. “That’s when it came to light that wearing apparel to the poll site could be misconstrued as electioneering.”

Electioneering is the attempt to actively or passively persuade others to vote a certain way.

Proposition A specifically proposes the allocation of public funding toward a major redevelopment of the Spur’s current Eastside center. The plan is to transform the Frost Bank Center, Freeman Coliseum and surrounding grounds into a year-round stock and show rodeo district.

Proposition B seeks voter input in on public funding for a new downtown Spurs arena.

Both propositions would raise the county’s venue tax, a rare source of funding that comes from those visiting San Antonio, according to the San Antonio Report.

Early voting runs Oct. 20 through Oct. 31. The deadline to register to vote is Oct. 6, and the deadline to request a ballot by mail is Oct. 24.