(a) As used in this section, the following shall have the stated meaning:
(1) Electioneering shall include the displaying of signs, the distribution of campaign literature, cards or handbills, the soliciting of signatures to any petition, or the solicitation of votes for or against any candidate or question on the ballot in any manner.
(2) The main entrance is the principal entrance to be used by voters for entrance to the polling place in which a voting machine is located.
(b) To fulfill the government's obligation to protect the voter and the integrity of the election process from actual or attempted fraud, from obstruction, from intimidation real or inferred, from attempted or actual vote buying, from invasion of privacy, from harassment real, threatened or implied, from hindrance or delay all done under the disguise of electioneering, a electioneering free zone is established within three hundred feet of the entrance to any building contained a polling place on any election day;
(1) No person shall, on the day of any election as established in KRS 118.025, do any electioneering at the polling place or within a distance of three hundred (300) feet of the main entrance of a building used by voters in which a voting machine is located on election day.
(2) No person shall, on the day of any election as established in KRS 118.025 intentionally invade the right of privacy of any person on his or her way to vote, or cause interference, harassment, or alarm to any person on his or her way to vote.
(3) No person shall loiter or congregate in, or hinder or delay a voter, or solicit, or attempt to influence any voter in casting his vote within this 300 foot campaign free zone.
(4) Nothing contained in this section shall prohibit electioneering conducted within the interior of a private residence or business establishment by persons having a leased or ownership interest in such property, within the campaign free zone, provided that electioneering activities are confined to the interior of the buildings and cannot be heard or observed by any voters going to the polling place.
(5) Nothing in this section shall prohibit the displaying of political signs on private property or private establishment by a person having a leased or ownership interest in that private property or private establishment within the campaign free zone, regardless of the distance from the polling place provided that the sign is not accompanied by a person and does not emit any sound and is not audio-visual or mechanical and no larger than four (4) square feet in size.
(6) Any precinct election officer, county clerk, deputy county clerk, or any law enforcement official may enforce this section at the polls within three hundred (300) feet of the main entrance to the building used by voters in which the voting machine is located. Assistance may be requested of any law enforcement officer.
(7) Any property used for a polling location on election day shall not be considered a public place in any manner for public discourse. The grounds, buildings, sidewalks and parking lots at all polling locations are designated non-public forums for the election day.
(c) Any person who violates any provision of this section after he has been duly notified of such provisions by the sheriff of the election precinct shall, for each offense, be fined not more than five hundred dollars ($500.00) or be imprisoned for a term not to exceed twelve (12) months, or both so fined and so imprisoned.
(Ord. No. 240-79, § 1, 10-4-79; Ord. No. 103-88, § 1, 5-19-88; Ord. No. 192-92, § 5, 10-29-92; Ord. No. 99-2004, §§1, 2, 5-13-04)