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Current law prohibits electioneering inside a polling place and within 100 feet of the outside entrance of a polling place or within 100 feet of a ballot drop box. Electioneering consists of distributing or displaying circular or printed materials that offer suggestions about how to vote or which solicit support for a candidate, party, or public question. This bill expands current law to prohibit electioneering within 25 feet of a person waiting in line at a polling place or ballot drop box. Current law also prohibits the following: (1) tampering, defacing, or interfering with any polling booth; (2) obstructing or interfering with any voter, or loitering in or near a polling place; and (3) spending an inordinate amount of time in the polling booth. This bill expands current law to also apply such prohibited actions to ballot drop boxes. Current law also classifies electioneering as crime of the third degree in R.S.19:34-6, but as a disorderly persons offense in R.S.19:34-15. This bill provides for consistency in the law and makes electioneering a crime of the third degree.

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Jim Beach (D)*,  Shirley Turner (D)*, 

Received in the Assembly, Referred to Assembly State and Local Government Committee (on 03/24/2022)

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