Electioneering is any person or group seeking to influence voters by distributing campaign information by hand or voice, displaying campaign signs while loitering or congregating.

At the Polling Place

G.S. 163-166.4: “county board of elections, shall where practical, set the limit at 50 feet from the door of entrance to the voting place, measured when that door is closed, but in no event shall it set the limit at more than 50 feet or at less than 25 feet.”

Electioneering within 50 feet of the entrance to the building is Prohibited.

Between 6:30 am and 7:30 pm, election officials should enforce the electioneering buffer zone by:

• Keeping the buffer zone free of campaigners and campaign signs.
• Clearing voting booths of campaign literature left behind by voters.
• Providing a trash can in the voting enclosure in which voters may discard campaign items if they choose to.
• Refraining from wearing clothing, pins, etc. that display a preference for a candidate or political party.