ELECTIONEERING

California's Election Code prohibits persons from soliciting votes or electioneering at any time a voter may be casting a ballot. This does not pertain to normal campaign activities, such as mailers, campaign speeches, and the like.

"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 an absentee 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 absentee voter is voting." Elections Code §18371(a) See more about ballot solicitation.

Updated 2/27/2008