Electioneering law: stay 100 feet away, but yell all you want

Someone was shouting from a streetcorner in St. Paul about instant runoff voting.

November 3, 2009 at 8:05PM

Ann Scott sent in this question after voting in her St. Paul precinct, which is located in a church:

Scott wasn't the only one to wonder about it. Ramsey County elections manager Joe Mansky said it's legal, as long as the person doing the electioneering doesn't come too close to the building where the voting is taking place. He even sent one of his election workers to the precinct to check it out.

"You can yell and carry on as long as you're 100 feet away from our building," Mansky said.

Said Pat Turgeon of the Minnesota Secretary of State's office about the electioneer's behavior: "It may not be very Minnesotan, but it falls under freedom of speech."

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