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DELEGATE HARDWICKE: Assuming
that the subject matter does not come up
at the request of any other delegate, I will
withdraw it.
THE CHAIRMAN: Very well.
Are there any further amendments to
section 1?
Delegate Carson.
DELEGATE CARSON: Mr. Chairman,
would it be in order to ask a question of
Chairman Koss in relation to section 1?
THE CHAIRMAN: State the question.
DELEGATE CARSON: Delegate Koss,
I note that nowhere in section 1 is resi-
dency within a county required for voting
in a county election. Will you comment
upon this?
THE CHAIRMAN: I do not think that
kind of question at this time, after full
presentation of the report, is proper.
If you have a specific question, I think
you should address a specific question to
the Chairman.
DELEGATE CARSON: Delegate Koss,
did the Committee intend that the General
Assembly could provide for county resi-
dence to be a requirement in order to vote
in a county election?
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Koss.
DELEGATE KOSS: The requirement is
House of Delegates district. Now, in addi-
tion, the Committee assumed that the proc-
ess of registration would be carried out on
a county basis as it now is, and you would
register in the county in which you resided,
period.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Carson.
DELEGATE CARSON: Well, Delegate
Koss, I am not clear. I do not want to
muddy the waters, but do you intend by
your recommendation here that in order to
vote in a county election, for example for
county commissioners of Harford County,
that a person has to be a resident of that
county?
DELEGATE KOSS: Absolutely.
You would have to be a registered voter
in that county in order to vote in county
elections.
THE CHAIRMAN: If the Chair could
paraphrase the question, I think what Dele-
gate Carson is asking is this: if you have
a House of Delegates district which em-
braces parts of two different counties, the
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voter resides in the district, but not in
county A, is it the intention of the Com-
mittee that he would be able to vote in
county A?
Is that your question, Delegate Carson?
DELEGATE CARSON: That is, Mr.
Chairman.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Koss.
DELEGATE KOSS: Absolutely not.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Carson.
Her answer was absolutely not.
DELEGATE CARSON: Madam Chair-
man, I take it that is the intention of your
Committee, but you have not stated that
specifically in your language, have you?
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Koss.
DELEGATE KOSS: I would have to
agree with you, we intended to, and again
this was probably an assignment to the
Committee on Style and Drafting, that the
title of that section would make it clear
that we intended the eligibility in terms of
voting in county elections.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Carson.
DELEGATE CARSON: Would you be
agreeable then, if the Committee on Style
would insert a requirement in language
that in order for one to vote in a county
election, one had to reside in the county?
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Carson, the
Chair thinks that is an assignment far be-
yond the scope of the Style Committee and
if you think that is a matter that needs to
be incorporated, then I think it should be
submitted in the form of an amendment
so that the Committee of the Whole can
pass upon it.
I suggest to you that it is possible. I am
not saying that this is the interpretation.
It is possible to interpret section 1 and 6
together as indicating that the General
Assembly shall have the power to resolve
the kind of problem that you have just
mentioned.
That may or may not be desirable and,
therefore, I do not think it is solely a mat-
ter of style. I would suggest to you that
if you think it is important, that you see
Mr. Benson and have an appropriate
amendment drafted and we will come back
to the section before we conclude consid-
eration of this recommendation.
DELEGATE CARSON: All right.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Weide-
meyer.
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