Want to wear your MAGA hat to go vote? Pa rules say you’re OK

If you are inclined to wear campaign merchandise to the polls in the commonwealth, it is legal.

Individual voters who appear in polling places are allowed to wear a MAGA hat or a Harris-Walz camouflage hat or whatever merchandise they would like to polls this election.

Other states, including neighboring Delaware and New Jersey, have laws forbidding the wearing of political insignia to polls. Guidance from the Pennsylvania Department of State said rules against electioneering, or campaigning, should not prevent eligible voters from voting.

Voters can have campaign literature with them in polling places and even booths if it "assists them in making decisions," according to state guidance, but must be removed when the voter leaves.

However, voters cannot campaign for candidates or partisan issues in the polling place. People who aren't voting and campaign workers are not allowed within 10 feet of the polling place. That distance is shorter than Delaware and New Jersey, each with a 100 foot and 50 foot buffer respectively.

Poll watchers and local election officials are not permitted to wear partisan or candidate merchandise.

This article originally appeared on Erie Times-News: Can I wear my MAGA hat to polls in Pennsylvania?