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Vermont lawmaker reintroduces bill to raise write-in primary thresholds, limit post-primary party nominations
Summary
Representative Robin Shai of Middlebury introduced H.66 to require write-in primary candidates to meet the same petition threshold as listed candidates and to bar party committees from nominating candidates after a primary if no one ran, except in cases of withdrawal or death; town clerks urged a filing deadline for write-in campaigns.
Representative Robin Shai of Middlebury introduced H.66 on Feb. 11, a bill that would change how write-in candidates qualify in primary elections and restrict when a party committee may place a candidate on a general-election ballot.
Shai told the House Government Operations & Military Affairs committee the bill has two parts. "I introduced a bill very similar to this, the last biennium, and it was well received by everybody and got caught up in a larger elections bill that foundered somewhere in [the] Senate. Okay. So here I am again. But I did add one more thing to this," she said. The first change would require a write-in candidate in a primary to receive the same number of write-in votes as the petition-signature threshold required to appear on the primary ballot. Shai said that under current law a…
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