[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Board of the Town of St. Joseph as indicated in article histories. Amendments noted where applicable.]
[Adopted 8-8-2024 by Ord. No. 2024-09]
A. 
No person shall, in a public or private place, engage in violent, abusive, indecent, profane, boisterous, unreasonably loud, or otherwise disorderly conduct directed at or toward an individual working in their capacity as an election official or based on their position as an election official, under circumstances in which such conduct tends to cause or provoke a disturbance.
B. 
No person shall knowingly interfere with or obstruct any individual working in their capacity as an election official in the performance of such individual's duties related to the conduct of an election.
C. 
No person shall send an individual working in their capacity as an election official or based on their position as an election official a telecommunication message, with the reasonable expectation that such individual will receive the message, using any harassing, violent, abusive, threatening, indecent, or profane language or image, or any other message in which such telecommunication message tends to cause or provoke a disturbance.
ELECTION OFFICIAL
Has the same definition provided in Wis. Stats. § 5.02(4e), meaning an individual who is charged with any duties related to the conduct of an election.
TELECOMMUNICATION MESSAGE
Means any transfer of signs, signals, writing, images, sounds, data, electronic message, or intelligence of any nature using any instrument, equipment, machine, or other device that facilitates telecommunication or electronic communication, including but not limited to a computer, computer network, computer chip, computer circuit, scanner, telephone, cellular telephone, pager, personal communications device, radio, transponder, receiver, modem, or device that enables the use of a modem.
Any person violating this article shall, upon conviction for a first offense, forfeit not less than $300 nor more than $1,000. Any person violating this article shall, upon conviction for a second or subsequent offense within one year, forfeit not less than $1,000 nor more than $5,000.
Should any portion of this article be declared invalid or unconstitutional by a court of competent jurisdiction, such a decision shall not affect the validity of any other provisions of this article.