On August 27, the California Senate Appropriations Committee took no action on AB 308, so it becomes a “two-year” bill, and will next get action in 2010. This is the bill to help absentee overseas voters who are voting in a race that may require a second round of voting (an old-fashioned run-off). The bill would have made it possible for an overseas absentee voter to vote in both stages at the same time, using a single piece of mail. That avoids the problem that the postal mail to a foreign address might not get back and forth in the run-off quickly enough to be counted.