Campaigning At Polling Places

Promote Civility

Please Promote Civility! As a candidate, you have a responsibility to conduct a positive campaign. A well-informed and active electorate builds a healthy community. Your interaction with the community should be a positive one to build voter confidence in the electoral process.

Elections are emotional, now more than ever. Please share this information with your campaign volunteers. It cannot be stressed enough how important it is for everyone to be respectful of the law and each other during an election cycle.

This information is for candidates, committees, and their volunteers who plan to campaign at polling sites in Flagler County.

Early voting will be held October 19 - October 31, 2026 at five sites in Flagler County.
There are 21 precincts open on Election Day from 7:00 AM - 7:00 PM on November 3, 2026.

No Solicitation Zone

The No Solicitation Zone extends 150 feet from the entrance to the polling room or from the secure ballot drop box (for locations where the drop box is outside). This is a protected area for voter access only, pursuant to Section 102.031, Florida Statutes. No signs or solicitation may occur within 150 feet. This zone is clearly marked with signs and cones at all of our polling locations. When you arrive at a polling site, you will see a bright yellow cone and a “No Solicitation Beyond This Point” sign, which marks the edge of this boundary.

Please Walk Around The No Solicitation Zone. Campaign volunteers and/or candidates themselves wearing campaign t-shirts, hats or buttons may not walk through the 150’ zone throughout the day. Unless a campaign volunteer is going inside to vote or use the library or community center facilities, there should be no foot traffic through this area. Our trained election workers (sworn poll deputies stationed outside) have to assume that anyone wearing campaign apparel, carrying a sign or literature to distribute is there to solicit voters. The law very clearly prohibits this activity and the poll deputy will ask you to leave the area. Voters may wear campaign apparel when they visit a polling place.

The No Solicitation Zone is in effect during Early Voting and at our Election Day voting precincts. It also applies before 10:00 A.M. (or 7:00 A.M. on Election Day) when voters may or may not be waiting in line.

The Elections Office has a zero-tolerance policy for candidates and volunteers who violate our voters' free access to the polling room. This includes walking in between tents on either side of a polling place entrance, stopping traffic, standing and blocking passage on sidewalks, and standing in the roadway.

Q: Can campaign volunteers and/or candidates themselves, wearing campaign t-shirts, hats, or buttons, walk through the 150’ zone throughout the day? The answer is NO. Stay out of the No Solicitation Zone.

Q: Can voters wear campaign apparel? Yes. The law does not apply to voters. It applies to candidates and campaign volunteers who are there to solicit voters. Voters can wear whatever they want in the polling place.

Please be respectful of Elections Office staff and election workers who are doing their job to monitor the 150’ No Solicitation Zone. The same requirement will be reinforced for Elections staff to be respectful as well.

Violations

The following activities are prohibited at polling sites:

Political advertising and solicitation are prohibited within the No Solicitation Zone.

No volunteers or candidates with flyers or handouts
No volunteers or candidates wearing campaign apparel
No campaign signs
No vehicles with campaign signs or political advertising in windows or attached to vehicles

The following activities are prohibited in general:

Distribution of campaign materials inside a public area that is within 150 feet and adjacent to the polling room (i.e., inside the library)
Tents placed on a sidewalk or roadway, impeding voter access to the polling room
Candidates or volunteers standing in the way of voters on a sidewalk or roadway, impeding voter access to the polling room
Approaching vehicles and/or persons in their car with pamphlets or materials
Blocking traffic, stopping the flow of traffic, or walking out into traffic
Aggressive campaigning and the use of bullhorns, megaphones, and/or loudspeakers
Vehicles with political advertisements and/or political flags repeatedly driving through and circling the parking lot of a polling site

The Supervisor of Elections or the clerk may take any reasonable action necessary to ensure order at the polling places, including, but not limited to, having disruptive and unruly persons removed by law enforcement officers from the polling room or place or from the No Solicitation Zone surrounding the polling place.

In 2024, candidates began approaching and stopping vehicles as they were driving into our early voting sites. We received many complaints from voters! Do not approach vehicles in motion as they are driving. Do not walk into traffic. Do not stop the flow of traffic. Not only is it dangerous for you to be on the road and risk being run over, but it is also against the law to obstruct the flow of traffic. Reference: Section 316.2045, F.S.

Just a reminder that not everyone who visits our early voting sites intends to vote. Other functions are scheduled at these public facilities. The Elections Office does not control the scheduling or rental agreements for the other rooms in buildings where early voting is conducted.

Signs and Tents

Signs may not be placed in the right of way. Signs may not be attached to vegetation, buildings, fences, structures, street signs, or utility poles.

Shade canopy tents may be placed outside of the No Solicitation Zone at most of our polling sites. If tents are allowed on the property, they must be attended to and secured. An unsecured tent is a hazard, especially during a thunderstorm. A campaign tent flew across the parking lot here at the Elections Office in 2020, coming very close to damaging parked cars. Luckily, our poll deputies ran to catch it before it blew across the parking lot into traffic. We won’t be chasing your tents down, so you need to plan ahead to have someone there with the tent at all times. If a storm happens, take extra steps to secure your tent or take it down.

Tents and the candidates or volunteers working them may not block voter access to the sidewalk, parking lot, or parking spaces. Do not place signs on the sidewalk, in the parking lot, or in parking spaces.

Sign Removal

If your signs are removed from a polling location and you want them back, you need to contact the jurisdiction where the early voting site is located: City of Palm Coast, City of Flagler Beach, or Flagler County Code Enforcement. We are not the sign police. The Elections Office does not remove, collect, or store campaign signs outside of 150’.

Voter Intimidation

Section 104.0615, Florida Statutes

A person may not directly or indirectly use or threaten to use force, violence, or intimidation or any tactic of coercion or intimidation to induce or compel an individual to:

Vote or refrain from voting;
Vote or refrain from voting for any particular individual or ballot measure;
Refrain from registering to vote; or
Refrain from acting as a legally authorized election official or poll watcher.
A person may not knowingly use false information to:
Challenge an individual’s right to vote;
Induce or attempt to induce an individual to refrain from voting or registering to vote;

A person who violates subsection (2), subsection (3), or subsection (4) commits a felony of the third degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084.

Official Sample Ballots

The Official Sample Ballot is NOT intended for use by candidates or committees as a political advertisement to advocate for the election or defeat of candidates and/or issues. Taxpayer funds are used to publish, print, mail, and display sample ballots as a public service in advance of each election. The Elections Office is a nonpartisan administrative agency. Political advertisements should be purchased and paid for by political parties, political committees, and/or candidates, with the proper disclaimer required by Section 106.143, Florida Statutes.

Please call the Elections Office to report a violation: (386) 313-4170.