Washington State Statutes - Washington Attorney Directory

(1) During posted disability access voting hours, no person may, within the voting location, or in any public area within three hundred feet of an entrance to the voting location:

     (a) Suggest or persuade or attempt to suggest or persuade a voter to vote for or against a candidate or ballot measure;

     (b) Circulate cards or handbills of any kind;

     (c) Solicit signatures to any kind of petition; or

     (d) Engage in a practice that interferes with the freedom of voters to exercise their franchise or disrupts the administration of the early voting location.

     (2) No person may obstruct the doors or entries to a building containing the voting location or prevent free access to and from the voting location. Any sheriff, deputy sheriff, or municipal law enforcement officer shall prevent the obstruction, and may arrest a person creating such an obstruction.

     (3) No person may:

     (a) Except as provided in RCW 29A.44.050, remove a ballot from the disability access voting location before the closing of the polls; or

     (b) Solicit a voter to show his or her ballot.

     (4) No person other than a voting election official may receive from a voter a voted ballot or deliver a blank ballot to the voter.

     (5) A violation of this section is a gross misdemeanor, punishable to the same extent as a gross misdemeanor that is punishable under RCW 9A.20.021, and the person convicted may be ordered to pay the costs of prosecution.

[2004 c 267 § 308.]

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