Minnesota Session Laws - 1984, Regular Session

  

                         Laws of Minnesota 1984 

                        CHAPTER 515-H.F.No. 1606 
           An act relating to elections; prohibiting certain 
          inquiries of voters at or near the polls; amending 
          Minnesota Statutes 1982, section 204C.06, subdivision 
          1. 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
    Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 1982, section 204C.06, 
subdivision 1, is amended to read: 
    Subdivision 1.  [LINGERING NEAR POLLING PLACE.] An 
individual shall be allowed to go to and from the polling place 
for the purpose of voting without unlawful interference.  No 
voters or other individuals shall congregate in any number 
within 100 feet of a polling place.  No one, either inside a 
polling place or within 100 feet of the entrance to it, shall 
ask a voter how he or she intends to vote or has voted on any 
office or question on the ballot.  No one except an election 
official or an individual who is waiting to register or to vote 
shall stand within 50 feet of the entrance to a polling place. 
    Approved April 25, 1984