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Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A. Elections § 627. Arrangement of voting place

Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

The arrangement of a voting place is governed by the following provisions.

1. General layout. The voting place must be arranged so that the ballot box is within view of persons present. Each voting booth must be arranged so that those outside the guardrail enclosure can see who enters and leaves it.

2. Guardrail. A guardrail must be constructed so that only those inside its enclosure can approach within 6 feet of the ballot box and the voting booths.

3. Flag displayed. An American flag must be displayed in each voting place at any election.

4. Minimum size of voting place; complaint to Secretary of State. The following provisions govern the minimum size of voting places.

A. A municipality shall provide a voting place large enough to allow at least one worker from each political party to remain outside the guardrail enclosure as a pollwatcher as provided in section 683, subsection 1.

B. If the chair of any party's state committee submits a written complaint to the Secretary of State at least 90 days before an election, the Secretary of State shall authorize an inspection of the voting place considered to be too small to allow access for party workers. If the Secretary of State finds a voting place to be too small to allow access for party workers, the Secretary of State shall instruct the municipal officers to change the location of the voting place to one of a suitable size.

5. Rulemaking. The Secretary of State may adopt rules governing pollwatchers, additional party workers and others present in the polling place as described in subsection 4. Rules adopted pursuant to this subsection are routine technical rules as defined in Title 5, chapter 375, subchapter 2-A.

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