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voters until after the voters have voted and do not orally | | communicate with voters in a way that influences a voter's | | vote. |
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| | | C.__If a person attempts to influence voters or interfere | | with their free passage, the warden shall have that person | | removed from the voting place. |
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| | | 4.__Advertising prohibited.__A person may not display | | advertising material, operate an advertising medium, including a | | sound amplification device, or distribute campaign literature, | | posters, palm cards, buttons, badges or stickers containing a | | candidate's name or otherwise intending to influence the opinion | | of any voter within 250 feet of the entrance to either the voting | | place or the registrar's office.__The term "sound amplification | | device" includes, but is not limited to, sound trucks, | | loudspeakers and blowhorns. |
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| | | 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. |
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| | | B.__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. |
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| | | 5.__Communication devices.__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 subsection. |
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| | | 6.__Violation.__A person who knowingly engages in activities | | prohibited by this section commits a Class E crime. |
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| | | Sec. K-8. 21-A MRSA §829, as amended by PL 1993, c. 473, §39 and | | affected by §46, is repealed and the following enacted in its | | place: |
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