On March 10, the Virginia House tabled SB 624 until 2011. This is the bill on who can see the list of which voters voted in the most recent election. This probably means that the Know Campaign will reactivate its lawsuit in state court to obtain the list. The Know Campaign is a non-partisan group that encourages higher voter turnout by the device of mailing postal letters to voters to let them know which of their neighbors voted in the last election. The idea is that if people know their neighbors will find out if they voted, they will be more likely to vote. Existing state law gives the list of which voters voted to candidates, parties, and PAC’s, but not to other groups.

SB 624 had been introduced to clarify that groups like the Know Campaign may also see the list. Then the bill had been amended to say that no one may see the list. But, that idea doesn’t seem acceptable to the legislators either.