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MR. QUILLEN: Amendment No. 3 to committee

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recommendations Nos. S&E-1 and S&E-2 as amended, by report

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S&D-ll, by Delegate Macdonald.

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On page 2, section 2.03. Voters in Presidential

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Elections in line 20 strike out the word "shall" and insert

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in lieu thereof the word "may".

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THE PRESIDENT: The amendment is submitted by

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Delegate Macdonald. Is there a second.

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(The motion was duly seconded)

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THE PRESIDENT: The amendment. having been seconded,

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the Chair recognizes Delegate Macdonald.

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DELEGATE MACDONALD: Mr. President, fellow

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delegates, this amendment would change the word "shall"

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•on line 20, page 2, to "may".

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I think that we want to make this permissive and

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not mandatory. The committee's report — I am talking now

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about the report of the Committee on Suffrage and Elections --

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which accompanied its recommendation on first reading, states

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that the purpose of this section was to give the

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General Assembly the authority to provide a lesser

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residence requirement, and to carry out that purpose of course