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Bill would expand electioneering ban to county elections buildings and adjacent parking lots after repeated incidents in King County
Summary
Senate Bill 5684 would extend the state’s electioneering prohibitions to include county elections buildings, adjacent parking lots routinely used for parking and access routes between them; King County Elections and the bill sponsor said the change closes a gap that has allowed campaign RVs and signs to be placed outside the current buffer zones.
Senate Bill 5684, heard Feb. 11 by the Senate State Government, Tribal Affairs and Elections Committee, would expand the locations where electioneering and efforts to influence voters are prohibited during the 18 days preceding an election and through election day.
Under current law staff described at the hearing, electioneering is a gross misdemeanor if done within 100 feet of a vote center or student engagement hub and within 25 feet of a ballot drop box. Committee staff said the bill expands those prohibited locations to include "the building that contains the division of elections for a county auditor's office, including any parking lot adjacent to the building and routinely used for parking at that building…
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