This bill adds new restrictions regarding signatures and campaign contributions and clarifies existing restrictions in current law applying to the political activities of a candidate for public office at a voting place on election day. The bill prohibits a candidate or the candidate's representative, on public property within 250 feet of the entrance to the voting place as well as within the voting place itself, from collecting or soliciting voter signatures on a petition in support of the candidate's candidacy or campaign contributions under the Maine Clean Election Act for an office the candidate is seeking in that election year. The bill also clarifies that at or within 250 feet of a voting place a person may not influence or attempt to influence a voter's decision regarding a candidate for an office that is on the ballot for the election, whether or not the candidate's name is on the ballot, and clarifies that the provision also applies to write-in candidates running for an office that is on the ballot.

Statutes affected:
Bill Text LD 1702, HP 1137: 21-A.682