bcla
On our rugged Eastern foothills.....
- Joined
- Nov 28, 2012
I've been reading of stuff that's happened before. One is that a pen with a candidate's name has been left behind at the polling place. I suspect that's not going to happen this year as pens will be sanitized and checked often.Yeah TBH I don't know if anyone is really measuring. I haven't really encountered issues though and I've voted at a school, a church, the election office (usually that's where I go), an old mall space, and a sports facility complex building (I think it was for baseball).
These days I swear they just bombard us with mailings (We had 15 political mailings between the two of us delivered to our mail within 3 days for example) and most recently in the last couple of years text messages.
Well that's one way to show 'em I guess
That's a good point.
The full statute for my state is:
"Electioneering is knowingly attempting to persuade or influence eligible voters to vote for or against a particular candidate, party or question submitted. Electioneering includes wearing, exhibiting or distributing labels, signs, posters, stickers or other materials that clearly identify a candidate in the election or clearly indicate support or opposition to a question submitted election within any polling place on election day or advance voting site during the time period allowed by law for casting a ballot by advance voting or within a radius of 250 feet from the entrance thereof. Electioneering shall not include bumper stickers affixed to a motor vehicle that is used to transport voters to a polling place or to an advance voting site for the purpose of voting.
(b) As used in this section, "advance voting site" means the central county election office or satellite advance voting sites designated as such pursuant to subsection (c) of K.S.A. 25-1122, and amendments thereto, and adult care homes and hospital based care units at the time of an election participating in the voting procedures prescribed in K.S.A. 2012 Supp. 25-2812."
(c) Electioneering is a class C misdemeanor.
And here's the definition in my state:
As used in this section, “100 feet of a polling place, a satellite location under Section 3018, or an elections official’s office” means a distance 100 feet from the room or rooms in which voters are signing the roster and casting ballots.
This is going to be interesting. Some of the early voting locations in my county are in parking lots or even in public parks. I guess they'll be tented though, so that might technically be the "room". But one location I've voted at the most recently, the actual entrance to the room went down some stairs/ramps offset about 15 feet from the curb.
