Post by Logan on Apr 10, 2016 4:16:18 GMT -6
McAuliffe vetoes bill to allow party affiliation on ballots in local elections
Gov. Terry McAuliffe on Friday vetoed legislation to allow candidates to be identified by political party on ballots for local offices, saying the legislation would needlessly politicize local government.
Currently, only federal, statewide and General Assembly ballots mark candidates as nominees of a political party. Candidates for local councils or boards can run as Democrats, Republicans or otherwise, but are not identified as such on official ballots presented to voters on Election Day.
Senate Bill 767—sponsored by Sen. David R. Suetterlein, R–Roanoke County—would have allowed candidates nominated by a political party to be marked by a partisan identifier on official ballots.
“In requiring party identification of candidates for local offices, the bill would unnecessarily inject an element of partisanship into historically nonpartisan municipal elections,” McAuliffe said in his veto.
Read more: www.fredericksburg.com/news/va_md_dc/mcauliffe-vetoes-bill-to-allow-party-affiliation-on-ballots-in/article_fd32d28b-bd55-56c3-a2f0-c78c2134dd61.html
Gov. Terry McAuliffe on Friday vetoed legislation to allow candidates to be identified by political party on ballots for local offices, saying the legislation would needlessly politicize local government.
Currently, only federal, statewide and General Assembly ballots mark candidates as nominees of a political party. Candidates for local councils or boards can run as Democrats, Republicans or otherwise, but are not identified as such on official ballots presented to voters on Election Day.
Senate Bill 767—sponsored by Sen. David R. Suetterlein, R–Roanoke County—would have allowed candidates nominated by a political party to be marked by a partisan identifier on official ballots.
“In requiring party identification of candidates for local offices, the bill would unnecessarily inject an element of partisanship into historically nonpartisan municipal elections,” McAuliffe said in his veto.
Read more: www.fredericksburg.com/news/va_md_dc/mcauliffe-vetoes-bill-to-allow-party-affiliation-on-ballots-in/article_fd32d28b-bd55-56c3-a2f0-c78c2134dd61.html