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House committee backs language to bar relatives and close associates from recount committees
Summary
Legislative counsel and sponsors described H.450 language that would bar relatives, subordinates and those with shared financial interests from recount committees; the panel signaled support to fold the provision into a larger elections bill and asked counsel to draft final text.
A provision in H.450 that would prohibit family members and other interested persons from serving on recount committees drew detailed explanation from legislative counsel and support from members of the House Government Operations & Military Affairs Committee on March 13.
The proposal, presented to the committee as part of the miscellaneous elections bill work, would prohibit candidates and their immediate relations or those subordinate in an employment relationship from serving on a recount committee. "Disinterested individual means an individual who is not a relative of ... subordinate to ... and shares no direct pecuniary interest with the candidates," legislative counsel Tucker Anderson said, reading the bill text and explaining the terms used in the draft.
The language, Anderson said, uses the term "individual" to signal a natural person and builds a three-part test: consanguinity…
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