Kamala Harris Didn't Violate Election Laws in Ohio

The Misbar team has determined that this claim is false. Ohio voting laws prohibit electioneering within a certain distance from a polling, which state that:

• No person can engage in any kind of election campaigning within 10 feet of any voter waiting in line.
• No person can "solicit or in any manner attempt to influence any elector in casting the elector's vote."

While Harris did speak to voters outside a polling facility in Ohio on the first day of early in-person voting in Cuyahoga County, an article posted by Ohio public radio station WKSU reports that Harris "made a brief stop across the street from the line — and outside the 100 foot neutral zone — to thank people for voting."

Furthermore, several local elections employees witnessed the speech who pointed to an excerpt from a 2019 directive from Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose which explains where people are allowed to campaign.

The directive reads: “Nothing in Ohio’s election laws prohibit a person or entity from campaigning, displaying campaign material, or distributing food outside of the neutral zone of a polling location (i.e., outside of the flags marking the 100 foot barrier or beyond 10 feet from any elector waiting in line to vote, if the line to vote extends beyond the flags)."

Additionally, DJHJ Media, the site that originally posted the article about the supposed violation has since corrected their headline to state, “Kamala Harris Campaigns in Ohio Sunday, Yells at Handful of People in Line to Vote in Ohio” and noted that it had been corrected based on new information.