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The law referred to: "..... judge of election, pollwatcher, or other person....", and you are jumping to conclusions that "other person" means "voter".

No, it doesn't say "voter". It ways "other person", and that's where the courts have latitude, so what you need to do is to find out what Illinois own suppreme court says that means in the context of that law.

After all, if it means "all persons" then a son helping his elderly mother could be EXCLUDED from the polls, along with his mother, and they would be prevented from voting.

You'd then take them out and punish them for whatever it was they said.

I see a number of infringements of fundamental rights in any interpretation that says you can't talk about anything, certainly not a politician, at the polls.

BTW, the giant levitating Wookey's husband IS NOT A CANDIDATE for any of the offices on the ballot this time, so where was her "electioneering"?

From the Drudgereport article: "A top Ilinois State Board of Elections official tells the DRUDGE REPORT that Mrs. Obama -- a Harvard-educated lawyer -- may have simply been ignorant of the law and thus violated it unintentionally. "You kind of have to drop the standard for the first lady, right?" the official explained late Thursday. "I mean, she's pretty well liked and probably doesn't know what she's doing."

The IL Elections official says she broke the law.

You ought to read the law and what it says about people helping others vote. I skimmed through it when somebody posted a link to the law on one of the threads earlier and I didn't get the impression that the law as written would stand in the way of somebody getting help to vote.

The law wouldn't say "any other person" if it didn't mean "any other person". If the simple language of a law is still wide open to the discretionary whim of some official, then we aren't operating under the rule of law. We're then operating under the rule of men.

I don't see this as something they ought to pursue legal action against Michelle Obama over, but I DO think the White House and Michelle should admit that she violated the law by mistake. The Executive Branch of our country shouldn't be sending the message that what the laws say is irrelevant.

BTW, the giant levitating Wookey's husband IS NOT A CANDIDATE for any of the offices on the ballot this time, so where was her "electioneering"?

By that logic, Moveon.org could set up a booth with campaign materials in the polling place, as long as none of the people manning the booth had a relative as a candidate in the election.

Electioneering: "To work actively for a candidate or political party."

If she's saying anything to persuade people to support a particular candidate, or political stance, or party, she's electioneering, even if she doesn't even KNOW any of the people running.