Legal Opinion

In Re Attorney General's "Directive on Exit Polling: Media & Non-Partisan Public Interest Groups,"

Supreme Court of New Jersey

Decided September 30, 2009No. A-47 September Term 2008PublishedCited by 37 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Albin

The American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey (ACLU) challenges both an Attorney General directive, which requires those conducting exit polling to register with election officials two weeks before an election, and the Attorney General’s denial of the ACLU’s request to distribute so-called “voting-rights cards” within 100 feet of a polling place. In our view, the true issue is whether all expressive activities—electioneering and non-electioneering—are banned within 100 feet of a polling place under New Jersey’s election laws and, if so, whether such a ban, as it applies to exit polling and…

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