I've no idea what MI says but in IL the election judges get a snazzy 100' string as part of our package so we can know exactly where the boundaries are and measure it from the actual polling location (i.e. where the machines are). Anyway, this non-issue is even less of a non-issue:
Wall Street Journal wrote:
A pool report by Chicago Sun-Times reporter Abdon Pallasch said Obama had a photo taken with electrician Dennis Campbell, 56 years old. It quoted Campbell as saying, “She was telling me how important it was to vote to keep her husband’s agenda going.â€
Pallasch told Washington Wire that the voters came up to Obama after they had cast their own ballots, and that they initiated conversation with her.
Election-law specialists said those circumstances mean Obama is off the hook.
“Usually we picture electioneering as somebody with a sign, a concerted effort to convince voters,†said Richard Hasen, a professor at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles. “It’s hard to imagine that a casual comment like that would be taken seriously as a violation of the law.â€
Deanna Mool, who practices election law in Springfield, Ill., said the statute is intended to protect voters from being pressured at the ballot box. She said she hadn’t heard of anyone being prosecuted for violating the statute. Instead, poll workers generally ask violators to stop or move their activities 100 feet outside the polling station.
