On February 3, the West Virginia Senate passed SB 249 by a vote of 25-8. The bill abolishes the straight-ticket device. All the Republicans who voted, voted in favor of the bill. About half the Democrats voted for the bill and half voted against it. All eight “no” votes were Democrats.
The West Virginia Senate is closely divided between the two major parties, but the House is strongly Republican. The bill therefore seems very likely to pass the House.
Awesome news! Unfortunately none of the legislative roll call vote web pages are showing up, but here is the broken link anyway: http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/2015/RS/votes/senate/02-03_0002.pdf
I really hope this passes. I would love to be able to shorten the list that includes Oklahoma of states that still use this archaic and pointless device.
Geee – even more and more NON-votes for the lower gerrymander minority rule robot hacks ???
i.e. state reps, county hacks, etc.
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P.R. and nonpartisan App.V.