Passive electioneering

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Passive electioneering is the act of wearing campaign paraphernalia or carrying signs to a polling place with the intent of influencing voters. Across the United States laws vary relating to passive electioneering.^[1] In the fall of 2008, officials in Virginia moved to ban the wearing of campaign paraphernalia. New York has a similar law in place.

In 2008, internet political organizers were cautioning voters not to wear campaign T-shirts at the polls.^[2]

At least seven states, Maine, Montana, New Jersey, New York, Vermont, Virginia, and Kansas prohibit wearing campaign buttons, stickers and badges inside polling places.^[3][4] Efforts to enforce a similar ban are headed to court in Pennsylvania.^{[citation needed]} The American Civil Liberties Union argued that the ban violates the First Amendment's right to free speech.