What Has Happened to Legislation Concerning the Voter?
Our Voters Service reports:
A bill to allow new residents in the State to vote for president after less than a year's residence here, was defeated.
H. B. 483 - outlining absentee ballot procedures has passed the House and is now in the Senate.
H. B. 35 -. providing for an automatic recount in elections where the margin of victory falls within a specified fractional difference - has just been signed by the Governor and is now Act 7.
Voting Machines - The House passed a bill providing an appropriation of $286,000 for 150 voting machines-passed the House and is now in the Senate.
Defeated H. B. 1220 - This closed primary measure would have required that
voters merely declare whether they want a Republican or Democratic ballot in
the primary election. The House vote that killed the measure was 25 nays and
24 ayes!
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April 1961
June 1961