# Election Law (GEL)

## Title 13. Campaign Finance

### Subtitle 2. Campaign Finance Organization and Activity

#### Section 13-245

(a) In this section, "walk-around services" means the following activities if performed for money while the polls are open:

  (1) distributing campaign material;

  (2) stationing a person, including oneself, or an object in the path of a voter;

  (3) electioneering or canvassing as described in Sec. 16-206 of this article;

  (4) communicating in any other manner a voting preference or choice; or

  (5) performing any other service as a poll worker or distributor of sample ballots.

(b) This section does not apply to:

  (1) meals, beverages, and refreshments served to campaign workers;

  (2) salaries of regularly employed personnel in campaign headquarters;

  (3) media advertising, including newspaper, radio, television, billboard, or aerial advertising;

  (4) rent and regular office expenses; or

  (5) the cost of telephoning voters or transporting voters to and from polling places.

(c)

  (1) A campaign finance entity, or a person acting on its behalf, may not at any time, directly or indirectly, pay or incur an obligation to pay, and a person may not, directly or indirectly, receive any money or thing of value, for a political endorsement.

  (2)

    (i) A campaign finance entity, or a person acting on its behalf, that pays any person for walk-around services shall make all payments by check from a campaign account designated under Sec. 13-220(a) of this subtitle.

    (ii) All payments made under subparagraph (i) of this paragraph shall be reported in accordance with Sec. 13-304 of this title.

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Md. Code Ann., Election Law (as displayed at mgaleg.maryland.gov, October 16, 2026)