On February 16, the Alabama House Constitution, Campaigns & Elections Committee passed HB 44. The bill increases the “no-politics zone” distance from 30 feet to 150 feet from the door of the building. The bill was amended in Committee to cover all elections for state and local office, which seems to imply that the bill doesn’t apply to polling places when a federal office is on the ballot. However, that is not clear.
Will this be interpreted to exclude petitioning within 150 feet of the entrance/exit to a polling place?
#1, yes. That’s probably why the bill was introduced.