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Senate committee pulls bill on electioneering outside 100-foot polling zone after property-rights concerns
Summary
A Senate committee heard hours of debate over proposed law to require volunteer polling sites to allow electioneering outside the 100-foot exclusion zone; sponsor said he would pull the bill to draft an amendment after members raised property-rights and boundary-definition concerns.
Senator Kim Hamer, state senator for District 16, introduced legislation that would require a volunteer polling site to permit people to be physically present, engage in audible campaigning and hold or have an attendee for portable signs outside the 100-foot electioneering exclusion zone. Hamer said the change clarifies an ambiguity counties faced in the last election and aims to ensure equal access for candidates and issue advocates.
"It must allow that as an election site that you would allow physical presence, audible campaigning, and a sign that can either be held or…
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