Waiting to vote? No cell phones! Seems to be a rule in Mequon

From the Journal Sentinel's allpolitics blog...

http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/news/allpolitics.html
By Bruce Vielmetti of the Journal Sentinel
Updated: 11:21 a.m.

About half of the 100 or so people waiting to vote inside Donges Bay Elementary School in Mequon early Tuesday had their heads bent down looking at cell phones when a poll worker sheepishly walked along the queue, announcing that all cell phones had to be turned off.

Folks looked perplexed, but no one protested, and dutifully put phones away.

When they got to the very front of the line, they might have noticed a yellow sign announcing the ban on cell phone use.

UPDATE ---

State officials say the Mequon sign above might be overstating things a bit.

Reid Magney, spokesman for the Government Accountability Board, said you can't talk on a cell phone, or use it to take pictures, while inside a polling place. But he clarified that it is permissible to text on or read from a cell phone while you wait in line.

"It's really about being disruptive," Magney said.