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TexasTowelie

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Sun Jun 23, 2019, 07:59 PM Jun 2019

Bills aim to end Pennsylvania's straight-party voting option

HARRISBURG — Legislation advancing in Pennsylvania’s Republican-controlled Legislature would eliminate the ballot option for voters to simply select a straight-party ticket in elections, although House Democrats are objecting to it.

Bills to eliminate it emerged from committee in both chambers this week. The Senate bill is sponsored by Democratic Sen. Lisa Boscola and was approved unanimously Monday in committee.

But most Democrats voted against it Wednesday in a House committee as part of a wider package of changes to election laws.

House Republican leader Bryan Cutler’s office says it’s a bipartisan effort to make every race as fair as possible for all parties. But Democratic campaign strategists say eliminating it could hurt their party’s down-ballot candidates.

Read more: https://www.theintell.com/nationworld/20190622/bills-aim-to-end-pennsylvanias-straight-party-voting-option
(Doylestown Intelligencer)

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