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Subcommittee unanimously advances bill to set earlier deadline for filing challenges to candidate qualifications
Summary
Senate Bill 940 would require courts to decide many candidate-qualification challenges before absentee ballots are made available, and the subcommittee reported the bill unanimously, 8-0.
Senate Bill 940, presented to the Virginia Senate Elections Subcommittee, would require that challenges to the technical filings that qualify a candidate for the ballot (petitions and certificates of qualifications) be resolved within a set window early in the election calendar so disputes are not decided after absentee voting begins.
The sponsor said the bill was inspired by contested situations in Fairfax County where challenges to petitions were litigated…
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