On June 7, the Delaware House Administration Committee passed HB 177. It outlaws fusion. Under current law, fusion is legal in Delaware, and had been used in 2006 in one state legislative race.

If this bill is eventually signed into law, Delaware will follow in the footsteps of Arkansas, which had had legal fusion for decades, but no one ever used it. In 1996 the Arkansas Reform Party jointly nominated a legislative candidate who was also the Republican Party nominee. That reminded the Arkansas legislature that fusion was legal. So, the following year, the legislature abolished it. Another state that recently abolished fusion is South Dakota.