On February 6, the Virginia House Privileges and Elections Committee passed HB 2642 by a vote of 22-0, after amending the bill. The amended bill makes it a crime for anyone to pay petition circulators on a per-signature basis, or even to offer. It would also be a crime for anyone to ask to be paid on a per-signature basis, or to be paid that way.
The part of the bill that requires voters to prove they are citizens before registering to vote was deleted. The only remaining other provisions of the bill require the State Board of Elections to delete the names of voters shown as deceased in Social Security records, and a ban on paying people to register voters on a per-registration basis.
We all need to work to stop these bad bills that will make it impossible to get candidates on the ballot outside the duopoly.
We need to stop wasting our time on other efforts like NPV, PR, and IRV that deplete our needed resources and, if passed, would make our country even less free.
Is VA the home of the R word — Washington, Jefferson, Madison, etc ???