Party workers and others who remain in the voting place outside the guardrail enclosure may not use within the voting place cellular phones, beepers, voice or signal pagers or similar devices that make noise or allow direct audible voice communication within the voting place. The warden may exempt election officials and emergency workers such as Emergency Medical Technicians and police from this provision.

A. This subsection does not apply to advertising material on automobiles traveling to and from the voting place. It does not prohibit a person from passing out stickers at the voting place to be pasted on the ballot at a primary election. It does not prohibit a person who is at the polls solely for the purpose of voting from wearing a campaign button when the longest dimension of the button does not exceed 3 inches.

B. A person who knowingly engages in activities prohibited by this section commits a Class E crime.

C. Nonpolitical charitable activities and other nonpolitical advertising may be allowed at the discretion of the clerk if arrangements are made prior to election day. If arrangements are not made in advance of election day, the warden may, at the warden's discretion, either allow or prohibit nonpolitical charitable activities and other nonpolitical advertising.

Sec. 17. 21-A MRSA §682, sub-§4 is enacted to read:

4.__Devices for audible communication.__Party workers and others may not use cellular phones, voice pagers or similar devices to make audible voice communication within the voting place that is in violation of subsection 2.

Sec. 18. 21-A MRSA §698, sub-§2-A, as amended by PL 2001, c. 310, §45, is further amended to read: