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no position to establish anything, but I think that we

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did want the General Assembly to establish by law a state

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agency.

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Now, this state agency would be established under

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the discretion of the General Assembly, and they might in

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their wisdom establish an agency of one person, or whatever

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they thought they needed, a Board of Election Supervisors

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for the state, if that was what they wanted.

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What we are attempting to do was to meet a need

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and that need was for uniformity in the administration of

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election, and election law. It was made very evident to

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us in testimony before our committee that those people

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who were charged with responsibility in this state of

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carrying this out would want very much to have some sort

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of uniform state guidelines, and administration that they

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could use that the present language in our present 1867

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Constitution was not strong enough, and did not go far

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enough to that purpose , and that the purpose of our

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language was simply to meet the need that we felt we

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became convinced was there, and became convinced by those

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people in the state who are charged with that responsibility