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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Days from Election Day, Fresno County officials accidental elector turnout is the highest they person seen successful years - but arsenic information grows, they privation to marque definite nary 1 interferes with the predetermination process.
“We person 5 days near until the election. Please beryllium respectful of radical successful this region who are moving to guarantee that we person harmless and just predetermination processes,” Fresno County District Attorney Lisa Smitcamp said.
Fresno County has 53 in-person voting locations and 67 driblet boxes acceptable up this year. They are present reminding voters that it is amerciable to beforehand an progressive campaigner astatine immoderate of those locations.
“Election workers volition not process a elector that is engaged successful electioneering activities oregon wearing disposable electioneering material,” Fresno County Clerk James Kus said.
Kus says California Codes 319.5 and 18370 restrict anyone from wearing a candidate’s sanction oregon likeness wrong 100 feet of a polling station; that includes things similar t-shirts, hats, and buttons.
They besides accidental anyone with a run bumper sticker is restricted from utilizing the county’s drive-through voting location.
“We request to beryllium respectful for different voters and for our workers who are determination to supply a work to you. We privation to assistance you ballot the mode that you privation to ballot erstwhile you're determination to vote,” Kus said.
He says anyone who arrives astatine a voting determination wearing run cogwheel volition beryllium asked to region it oregon screen it up. If they garbage to bash so, they volition person to permission and instrumentality erstwhile they person changed their clothes.
“When you're determination to vote, you're determination to vote. As acold arsenic the signs, the clothing, the hats, you know, permission it successful your car. It has nary spot successful the polling place,” Fresno County Sheriff John Zanoni said.
Zanoni says polling stations should beryllium neutral spaces wherever everyone is determination for the aforesaid purpose: to vote.
Kus says anyone who witnesses predetermination interference tin telephone his bureau astatine (559) 600-2575. He says they cannot code the occupation if they bash not cognize astir it.
