Suspending the 1st Amendment for Election Day
From the Century Code:
This law must be changed this session.
Our guys are dying in Iraq for the Freedoms the Constitution grants us; for the State of North Dakota to suspend my right as a private citizen to make calls or basicly do anything on election day is an affront to all that died for this nation.
16.1-10-06. Electioneering on election day - Penalty. Any person asking, soliciting, or in any manner trying to induce or persuade, any voter on an election day to vote or refrain from voting for any candidate or the candidates or ticket of any political party or organization, or any measure submitted to the people, is guilty of an infraction. The display upon motor vehicles of adhesive signs which are not readily removable and which promote the candidacy of any individual, any political party, or a vote upon any measure, and political advertisements promoting the candidacy of any individual, political party, or a vote upon any measure which are displayed on fixed permanent billboards, may not, however, be deemed a violation of this section.
This law must be changed this session.
Our guys are dying in Iraq for the Freedoms the Constitution grants us; for the State of North Dakota to suspend my right as a private citizen to make calls or basicly do anything on election day is an affront to all that died for this nation.