YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio - I’m urging my supporters to go to the polls and watch very carefully because that’s what has to happen. I am urging them to do it,” said President Donald Trump alleging, without evidence, that the electoral process is “rigged.”

However, supporters who act on the President’s urging to be self-appointed poll watchers or those of Democratic candidate Joe Biden who try to do the same thing during the Nov. 3 presidential election will not get very far. They will be removed either voluntarily or by local law enforcement if they refuse to comply.

The response has nothing to do with politics and everything to do with Ohio law, which is very specific about the process for selecting poll watchers. Only three groups are authorized to appoint observers: (1) a political party that has a candidate on the ballot, (2) a group of five or more candidates and (3) a ballot issue committee that either supports or opposes an issue.

The deadline for those appointments is Oct. 23.

Anyone else “will be asked to leave if they have not been chosen by either party,” said Joyce Kale-Pesta, Mahoning County Board of Elections director. That means there are usually no more than two observers—one representing each party—unless another poll watcher is appointed by an issues committee. The law limits each candidate to one observer per polling place.

They have to take an oath not to interfere with the elections,” Kale-Pesta said. Poll watchers cannot impede voters, question them or wear any campaign material on behalf of a particular candidate. Another provision in the Ohio Revised Code seems particularly relevant considering current political controversies over gun rights:

No uniformed member of the organized militia, no person wearing any other uniform, and no person carrying a firearm or other deadly weapon shall serve as an observer,” it states.

Stephanie Penrose, elections director of Trumbull County, emphasizes the law’s restrictions of any type of campaigning or voter interference within a 100-foot radius of the polling location, which is marked by either flags or cones. State law prohibits all loitering, congregating or engaging in any campaigning within the zone.

I’ve been told by the Ohio Secretary of State that my jurisdiction is inside the 100-feet,” Penrose tells 21 News. “If I had a call that (voters are) being harassed even if it is outside the flags, I would call law enforcement,” she says. “Our calls are mostly about people creeping inside the flags or cones, but there’s been nothing really overt.”

Our sheriff is really good about helping us out on election days,” said Mahoning County’s Kale-Pesta. “We have had no trouble—knock on wood—but I don’t see anything else happening…hopefully.”