• Laws in every state prohibit the distribution of propaganda at voting polls.Jeffrey Coolidge/Photodisc/Getty Images
  
  To ensure fairness, all states have laws to prevent individuals or groups from campaigning at or near poll booths on Election Day. These rules safeguard the electoral process by preventing intimidation or influence toward a given candidate or against that person.
  
  

Hawaii

• According to the State of Hawaii Office of Elections, the law prohibits display or distribution of any campaign material within 200 feet of any polling place, or its appurtenances -- the parking lots leading to and from any doors into any voting booth rooms. You may not display signs, make announcements or hand out buttons or hats supporting any candidate or initiative. If so, you could be found guilty of a misdemeanor.
  
  

Michigan

• According to the Michigan Department of State website, a law forbids display or distribution of any political or campaign material, including fliers, buttons, T-shirt or stickers in support of or against any candidate near polling places. You must keep this material beyond 100 feet of the entrance to any polling place. If polling officials find you with such materials, they will ask you to remove them or cover them up.
  
  

Illinois

• According to the Illinois Voting Statutes, it is against the law to engage in electioneering on Election Day in a campaign-free zone. Campaign officials place cones within 100 horizontal feet of any building that serves as a polling place. Beyond this point, you may distribute buttons, pamphlets or fliers -- even on Election Day.
  
  

Wake County, North Carolina

• According to the Wake County, North Carolina, Board of Elections website, it is illegal to distribute campaign literature, place political advertisements or otherwise campaign within 50 feet -- or, in some cases, 25 feet -- of a voting area. The county provides information concerning these campaign-free buffer zones 30 days before any election.
  
  

Kentucky

• According to the Kentucky Secretary of State website, the Commonwealth of Kentucky prohibits handing out fliers, T-shirts or hats supporting any candidate within 300 feet of any polling place. Although Kentucky law does permit you to show up to the polls with a bumper sticker in support of a candidate on your car, you cannot leave your car in front of a polling station for that purpose all day.