On March 15, HB 358 was introduced in the Alabama House to move the presidential primary from June to February. A bill to do this had passed last year, but because it had a technical error in it, the state didn’t forward it to the U.S. Justice Department for pre-clearance under the Voting Rights Act. Therefore, the 2006 change is null and void. The error was that the 2006 bill accidentally moved the primary for all office, not just president, from June to February. The new bill, HB 358, will keep the June primary for all office except president.