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Mister Ed

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10. Same thing here in Minnesota, where I work as an election judge.

Reply to h2ebits (Reply #6)

Mon Sep 27, 2021, 02:12 PM

Sep 2021

We've had people set up a table and try to hand out pamphlets at the entrance to a building, believing that they were within the law because they were more than the required distance from the room where the polling was taking place. But no dice. They needed to be the required distance from the entrance to the property, which, in this case, meant the entrance to the schoolyard, and not the school building.

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