Bill Sponsors: IN SB0107 | 2017 | Regular Session
Bill Title: Straight ticket voting. Provides that when a voter casts a straight party ticket in a general or municipal election, the voter is casting a ballot for all candidates of that party whose names appear on the ballot, including candidates for offices in a county or municipality for which more than one individual can be elected (county council member at large; city common council member at large; town council member at large; township board member at large). (Returns the law relating to straight party ticket voting to the substantive form it had before 2016.) Repeals a statute that requires votes for
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-01-04 - First reading: referred to Committee on Elections [SB0107 Detail]
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-01-04 - First reading: referred to Committee on Elections [SB0107 Detail]
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]
Sponsors
Name | Type | Sponsorship | District | Financial | Encyclopedia | Biography |
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Senator Jon Ford [R] | Primary | Sponsored Bills | SD-038 | FollowTheMoney | Ballotpedia | VoteSmart |