This page is an unofficial LFoD record and is not legal advice. Verify the document against the official source before relying on it.
SB41: relative to campaign activities at polling places.
Bill details
Version history, amendments, and roll-call votes were not present in the imported local bill data.
Sponsors
- William Denley Senate · Dist 3
Topics
ELECTION LAW AND VETERANS' AFFAIRS Elections and voting
Official links
SB 41 – AS INTRODUCED
2009 SESSION
09-0652
03/10
SENATE BILL 41
AN ACT relative to campaign activities at polling places.
ANALYSIS
This bill modifies restrictions on campaign activities in and near polling places.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.
Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
09-0652
03/10
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Nine
AN ACT relative to campaign activities at polling places.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Distributing Campaign Material at Polling Place. Amend RSA 659:43, I-II to read as follows:
I. No person who is a candidate for office or who is representing or working for a candidate shall distribute, [or] post, or wear at a polling place any campaign material in the form of a poster, card, handbill, placard, picture, [or] circular, button, sticker, or pre-printed article of clothing which is intended to influence the action of the voter within the building where the election is being held.
II. No person who is a candidate for office or who is representing or working for a candidate shall distribute any campaign materials or perform any electioneering activities or any activity which affects the safety, welfare, and rights of voters within [a corridor 10 feet wide and extending a distance from the entrance door of the building as determined by the moderator where the election is being held] 50 feet of the entrance door of the building; except that the moderator may designate an area within 50 feet of the entrance door of the building where such persons may distribute campaign materials or perform electioneering activities.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect January 1, 2010.