o Display buttons, hats, pencils, pens, shirts, signs, or stickers containing electioneering information. o Disseminate audible electioneering information. o Obstruct access to, loiter near, or disseminate visible or audible electioneering information at vote by mail ballot drop boxes.
The electioneering activities described in this section are prohibited within 100 feet of either of the following:
• The entrance to a building that contains a polling place, an election official's office, or a satellite location under Section 3018. • An outdoor site, including a curbside voting area at which a voter may cast or drop off a ballot. Additionally, a person shall not, on Election Day, or at any time that a voter may be casting a ballot, do any electioneering activities within the immediate vicinity of a voter in line to cast a ballot or drop off a ballot.
Any person who violates any of the provisions of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor.
§ 18371 – Electioneering during vote by mail period – (a) No candidate or representative of a candidate, and no proponent, opponent, or representative of a proponent or opponent, of an initiative, referendum, or recall measure, or of a charter amendment, shall solicit the vote of a vote by mail voter, or do any electioneering, while in the residence or in the immediate presence of the voter, and during the time he or she knows the vote by mail voter is voting. (b) Any person who knowingly violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor. (c) This section shall not be construed to conflict with any provision of the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended, nor to preclude electioneering by mail or telephone or in public places, except as prohibited by Section 18370, or by any other provision of law.
Truth in Endorsement Laws
§ 20001(1) – Legislature’s findings – The major political parties have become an integral part of the American governmental system requiring regulation as to their structure, governing bodies, and functions by state government in the public interest. (2) The Legislature has found it necessary and appropriate in the regulation of political parties to create and provide for the convening of state conventions, state central committees, and county central committees for parties qualified by law to participate in the direct primary election, by statute. (3) Over the several years preceding the adoption of this section organizations of electors using as a part of their names the name of a political party qualified to participate in the direct primary election have endorsed candidates for nomination of that party for partisan office in the direct primary election and have publicized and promulgated the endorsements in a manner that has resulted in considerable public doubt and confusion as to whether the endorsements are those of a private group of citizens or of an official governing body of a political party.
21
Page 74
Made with FlippingBook interactive PDF creator