Polling Place Moved Next Door to Wolfe Campaign Office

[Kire]

So now, we are not allowed to have political signs on our very own campaign office in Hackettstown on election day.

What steams me, is that they moved it there after we set up shop. One week after.

Dirty tricks?

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

1. Did the county place it there?

If so, yes. Time to contact the newspapers. Who made the decision?

The Squad Building?

[gristy]

2. Don't sweat it

The rule that no political advertising is allowed "near" any polling place is a very, very, very good one. I doubt they put it there because you were next door. There just doesn't seem to be much advantage.

[Jersey Devil]

3. The law is 100 feet from a polling place no campaigning

I've had repugs demand I remove my Dem bumper stickers while parked at a polling place parking lot (school). I tell them to go piss up a rope. They should do the same thing.

[jerseygirl]

4. The decision was made

by the county board of elections, which consists of 2 Ds and 2 Rs. A letter was sent about two weeks ago to voters in the two affected precincts. They can't prohibit the campaign from having signs on its own property. The law, I believe, says no campaigning w/in 200 feet or whatever the limit is. So we can't have people outside distributing flyers. Sounds like time-tested GOP intimidation tactics to me.

[Jersey Devil]

5. Here is the New Jersey law on it

19:34-6 Prohibited actions in polling place on election day; exception for simulated voting.

19:34-6 a. If a person shall on election day tamper, deface or interfere with any polling booth or obstruct the entrance to any polling place, or obstruct or interfere with any voter, or loiter, or do any electioneering within any polling place or within one hundred feet thereof, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars ($500.00) or by imprisonment not exceeding one year, or both.

b.This section shall not be construed to prohibit a minor from entering a polling place on the day of an election to vote in a simulated election at that polling place, or persons from supervising or working at a polling place in a simulated election in which minors vote, provided that the county board of elections has determined that the polling place can accommodate simulated election activities without interfering with the orderly conduct of the official voting process.

Amended 1940, c.199, s.3; 1948, c.438, s.12; 2000, c.173, s.2.

[jerseygirl]

6. Not a problem

The line from door to door has to be at least 100 feet. The law basically prohibits campaign workers from standing right outside the polling place to try to influence voters. We won't have a problem.

[Kire]

7. we removed all of our signs tonight

the opposite end of the property is 90 feet from the polling place, so we removed all of our campaign signs, from our campaign office, on election day

The county lawyer for the Democratic Committee basically told me if anybody wants to park in our lot, we have to cover our bumper stickers with duct tape or something

I am so sad.