Today's Historic Dates

stillthelaw:

 It’s quite plausible that most Oklahoma polling places are opened within half a mile of some retail beer sales. A restaurant, night club, convenience store, grocer, or liquor store; are all granted licenses to freely sell on election days. But both the retail clerk and the patron are immediately committing criminal acts if a polling place is within half a mile (as the crow flies).

I guess it’s yet another way in which opioids and cannabis are regarded more favorably than a can of beer, in the Sooner State?

Even driving home from the grocery store and coming within 2640 ft. of a polling place could trigger your arrest?

There seems to be no exemption for residences within the area of the local polling places. The language seems to include possession, not just commerce.

§26-16-112.  Intoxicating liquors.

Any person who takes intoxicating liquors of any kind or quantity to within one-half (½) mile of any polling place on an election day shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.

Laws 1974, c. 153, § 16-112, operative Jan. 1, 1975.