Judges: CHARLES C. FOTI, JR., Attorney General
Filed Date: 1/25/2007
Status: Precedential
Modified Date: 7/5/2016
Your recent request for an Attorney General opinion has been forwarded to me for research and reply. You ask whether (i) a proposition could be placed on the September 30, 2006 ballot giving the citizens of Harahan the opportunity to vote on the placement of condominiums in the city, and (ii) if not, whether the city could place a ballot box at each polling place and allow voters to cast a paper ballot relative to this issue.
LSA-R.S.
Likewise, because said proposition is not permitted by the state constitution, a state statute or home rule charter, you may not place ballot boxes in the polling sites to allow voters to cast paper ballots on the issue. You may, however, solicit signatures, issues or candidates not on the day's ballot as long as this is done outside of a radius of six hundred feet of the entrance of any polling place as long as doing so does not disrupt the order at the polling place or violate any of the prohibitions in LSA-R.S.
We hope this opinion adequately responds to your request. If we can be of further assistance to you, please do not hesitate to contact our office.
Yours very truly,
CHARLES C. FOTI, JR.
ATTORNEY GENERAL
By:______________________
WILLIAM P. BRYAN III
Assistant Attorney General
CCF, Jr./WPB, III/sfj