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Committee discusses H.117 to bar primary losers from running general-election ballots
Summary
The Government Operations & Military Affairs Committee discussed H.117, which would prevent a candidate who ran in a major-party primary and lost from appearing on the general-election ballot as an independent or under another party. The committee flagged the bill for further consideration; no vote was taken.
The Government Operations & Military Affairs Committee discussed H.117, a bill that would prevent a candidate who ran in a major-party primary and lost from appearing on the general-election ballot as an independent or as a candidate for another party, during a committee meeting (date not specified).
Representative Hoover, who presented the measure to the committee, said the bill aims to close what the presenter called a loophole that emerged after earlier changes to election law. "That seems to me to be, two bites of the same apple, which I don't think the legislature or democratic process probably endorses," Hoover said. "This bill basically says, if you've run as a major party…
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