Primary elections; adds party affiliation to application when registering to vote. (SB62)
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Passed Senate |
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Signed by Governor |
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Description
Primary elections; voter registration by political party. Adds party affiliation to the information that an applicant is asked to provide when registering to vote. The applicant may indicate that he is an independent. Voters registered prior to January 1, 2013, will be designated as independent unless they provide a political party designation in writing to the general registrar. Voters may change their party affiliation or independent status by written notice at any time before the registration records are closed prior to an election. The state party chairman of each political party must notify the State Board of Elections by January 31 of each year of the party rules governing who may participate in the party primary. Read the Bill »
Outcome
History
Date | Action |
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01/05/2012 | Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/12 12100717D |
01/05/2012 | Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections |
01/17/2012 | Assigned to P&E sub: Campaigns and Elections |
01/31/2012 | Impact statement from DPB (SB62) |
01/31/2012 | Reported from Privileges and Elections with substitute (8-Y 7-N) (see vote tally) |
01/31/2012 | Committee substitute printed 12104359D-S1 |
02/01/2012 | Incorporates SB244 |
02/01/2012 | Impact statement from DPB (SB62S1) |
02/02/2012 | Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) (see vote tally) |
02/03/2012 | Passed by for the day |
02/06/2012 | Read second time |
02/06/2012 | Passed by for the day |
02/07/2012 | Passed by for the day |
02/08/2012 | Read second time |
02/08/2012 | Reading of substitute waived |
02/08/2012 | Committee substitute agreed to 12104359D-S1 |
02/08/2012 | Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB62S1 |
02/09/2012 | Read third time and defeated by Senate (15-Y 25-N) (see vote tally) |
02/09/2012 | Reconsideration of defeated action agreed to by Senate (39-Y 1-N) (see vote tally) |
02/09/2012 | Defeated by Senate (16-Y 24-N) (see vote tally) |
Video
This bill was discussed on the floor of the General Assembly. Below is all of the video that we have of that discussion, 1 clip in all, totaling 5 minutes.
Comments
This just allows the political parties to target voters. Don't we have more important thing to work on in Richmond. What ever happened to closing down the ABC stores and saving some 200 million.