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1 In Re: Attorney General\'s Directive on Exit Polling -- rank: 1000

... exclusionary zone and agreed that the applicable election-law statute, N.J.S.A. 19:34-15, barred the distribution or display of any material, including voting ... New Jersey's election-law statutes, the Court notes that N.J.S.A. 19:34-15 makes it a disorderly persons offense to, among other things ... with the Attorney General that the applicable election-law statute, N.J.S.A. 19:34-15, barred the distribution or display of any material, however innocuous ... prior restraint of speech. The Attorney General also maintains that N.J.S.A. 19:34-15's ban on the display or distribution of circulars and ... the day, or making commercial sales pitches. The third statute, N.J.S.A. 19:34-15, makes it a disorderly persons offense to "distribute or display ... to such polling place or room." Given the wording of N.J.S.A. 19:34-15, both sides have reasonable arguments whether the prohibition on ...

docket:	a-47-08
court:	supreme
decided:	2007-07-18
status:
citation:	200 N.J. 283 981 A.2d 64
Document Size:	156203

2 IN RE: ATTORNEY GENERAL'S DIRECTIVE ON EXIT POLLING MEDIA AND NON-PARTISAN PUBLIC INTEREST GROUPS -- rank: 810

... statutes as the authority for her promulgation of this directive, N.J.S.A. 19:34-15. N.J.S.A. 19:34-6 is titled, "Obstructing ... hundred feet thereof, loiter, electioneer, or solicit any voter." Finally, N.J.S.A. 19:34-15, titled "Electioneering within or about polling place," provides: If a ... terms of the statutory argument, the parties focus primarily on N.J.S.A. 19:34-15. ACLU-NJ posits two reasons why its proposed distribution of ... series of legislative revisions and changes to our election laws, N.J.S.A. 19:34-15 is of comparatively recent vintage. In 1890, the Legislature enacted ... guilty of a misdemeanor. This is clearly the predecessor to N.J.S.A. 19:34-15, and it has been continued in all subsequent elections enactments ... Legislature had intended to prohibit, Paragraph 447, Sec. 15 and N.J.S.A. 19:34-15 would be surplusage and unnecessary; that activity was already ...

docket:	a0543-07
court:	NJ Superior Court Appellate Division
decided:	2007-00-18
status:	published
citation:	402 N.J. Super. 118 952 A.2d 1127
Document Size:	94697