• The election must be orderly. Do not talk in a loud voice, cause confusion, or congregate inside the polls. Do not ask to use the telephone or other facilities. Only voters engaged in receiving, preparing, or depositing their ballots and persons authorized by the precinct board to keep order and enforce the law may be permitted to be within the voting booth area before the closing of the polls. § 14221 (a) Only members of the precinct board, and persons while signing their names on the roster, shall be permitted, during the hours within which voting is in progress, to sit at the desk or table used by the precinct board. (b) Any person may inspect the roster while voting is in progress and while votes are being counted. However, this shall not be done at a time or in a manner which will impede, interfere, or interrupt the normal process of voting. § 14223 • No person on Election Day, or at any time that a voter may be casting a ballot, within 100 foot limit of either the entrance to a building that contains a polling place, or an elections official’s office: (a) Circulate an initiative, referendum, recall, or nomination petition or any other Petition; and (b) Solicit a vote or speak to a voter on the subject of marking his or her ballot; and (c) Place a sign relating to voters’ qualifications or speak to a voter on the subject of his or her qualifications except as provided in Section 14240; and (d) Do any electioneering. Electioneering is defined as the visible display or audible dissemination of information that advocates for or against any candidate or measure on the ballot. “Vote Center 100 Foot” signs are posted outside vote centers, indicating the 100 foot boundary for electioneering. As used in this section, “100 feet from the entrance to a building that contains a polling place, or elections official’s office” means a distance 100 feet from the entrance of the building in which voters are signing the roster and casting ballots . Any person who violates any of the provisions of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor. § 18370 (a) Any person in possession of a firearm or any uniformed peace officer, private guard, or security personnel or any person who is wearing a uniform of a peace officer, guard, or security personnel, who is stationed in the immediate vicinity of, or posted at, a vote center without written authorization of the appropriate city or county elections official is punishable by a fine not exceeding ten thousand dollars ($10,000), by imprisonment in the state prison for 16 months or two or three years or in a county jail not exceeding one year, or by both the fine and imprisonment.
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