Election Day: Judge blocks N.J. media from interviewing voters exiting polls on election day
A federal judge in Trenton ruled Tuesday against a coalition of more than 100 New Jersey newspapers that sought to allow reporters to interview and photograph voters as they leave polling places on Election Day.
District Judge Joel A. Pisano said at a hearing that the state’s restriction on certain activities near the state’s 3,200 polling places was content neutral and designed to protect voters from obstructions as they head to the polls.
“Voters are entitled and have a right to a free, unfettered, unrestricted path to and from a polling place,” he said, adding that he was concerned with creating a “fire drill” by changing voting rules in the state less than two weeks before a presidential election. (Campisi, The Record)
https://www.northjersey.com/
