On May 7, South Carolina State Senator George Campsen (R-Charleston) introduced SB 683. It would provide that if a candidate is nominated by more than one party, the candidate must choose which party’s nomination he or she wants, and must decline all other nominations. There have been bills in previous sessions of the South Carolina legislature to ban fusion, but they didn’t pass. The bill, so far at least, has no co-sponsors.
George “Chip” Campsen has submitted election laws originating with ALEC before, and I wonder if this isn’t something that maybe originated in a national conference.
Locally, the several thousand votes Colbert-Busch received on the Working Families Party line may have piqued Campsen’s interest. WFP actually did a strong GOTV for the anti-union Democrat.
Article ALEC electoral efforts mentioning Campsen, though not this bill: http://www.prwatch.org/news/2013/03/12032/supreme-court-hears-challenge-alec-voting-bill-two-more-states-introduce-it
Text of the bill: http://www.scstatehouse.gov/cgi-bin/query.exe?first=DOC&querytext=s%20683&category=Legislation&session=120&conid=7277326&result_pos=0&keyval=1200683
Bad idea! Fusion voting should be throughout the country.
Which gang is more worried about ANY fusion stuff —
the statist leftwing Donkeys
the statist rightwing Elephants ???