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Committee Hears Support for Constitutional Amendment to Protect Early In‑Person Voting (SB 2)
Summary
Senator Darius Brown, sponsor of Senate Bill 2, told the Senate Elections and Government Affairs Committee that the measure would amend the Delaware Constitution to guarantee early in‑person voting for general, primary and special elections to fill General Assembly vacancies.
Senator Darius Brown, sponsor of Senate Bill 2, told the Senate Elections and Government Affairs Committee that the measure would amend the Delaware Constitution to guarantee early in‑person voting for general, primary and special elections to fill General Assembly vacancies.
The bill, Brown said, would enshrine a practice that has been in state law since February 2019 (effective for elections beginning Jan. 1, 2022) and protect early voting from future legal challenges to statutory provisions. "We've seen historically the engagement and benefit of being able to vote early," Brown said,…
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