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we should make it permissive and use the word "may".

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As it is now written, the General Assembly would be

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required to provide a lesser residence requirement, and I

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doubt whether we want to do that.

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THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Koss.

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DELEGATE KOSS: Mr. President, the committee

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report that accompanied S&E-2 includes the information

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that the General Assembly in 1965 did indeed pass a law

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permitting those people who did notmeet the residence

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requirements in this state to vote for President and

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Vice President.

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Insofar as the General Assembly had already

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exercised the authority that is granted here, and since

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the committee felt that it was very important that in this

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mobile society of ours, people who live within the United

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States should always be, if at all possible, permitted to

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vote for President and Vice President, we felt that it

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was very important that this language be mandatory and not

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permissive.

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For that reason I must oppose the amendment.

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THE PRESIDENT: Is there any further discussion?