Title 17
Elections

Chapter 23
Election Offenses

R.I. Gen. Laws § 17-23-15

§ 17-23-15. Polling or surveying of voter opinion.

(a) No person shall conduct any form of poll or survey of voter opinion or voter conduct within a building or within fifty (50) feet of the entrance or entrances to a building in which voting is being conducted at any primary or election; provided, that nothing in this section shall be deemed to apply to or to affect the activities of election officials or election inspectors, or “checkers”, “runners”, and “watchers” as defined in § 17-19-22.

(b) Notice of this section shall be posted in a conspicuous place at all polling places.

History of Section.
P.L. 1984, ch. 440, § 1; P.L. 1986, ch. 192, § 1.