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Style would change it to eliminate the
word "that" and put in the word "they".
Am I correct about that?
DELEGATE CARDIN: Yes.
THE PRESIDENT: To be consistent
with other similar changes that the Com-
mittee has made.
DELEGATE PENNIMAN: That is cor-
rect, Mr. President.
THE PRESIDENT: Would you accept
that change, Delegate Koss?
DELEGATE KOSS: Yes, Mr. Presi-
dent.
THE PRESIDENT: In line 12, change
the word "that" to the word "they". Is
there any objection? There is no objection.
So there will be 'no objection, the Chair
will read the amendment in lines 7 to 13
as modified:
"If any county is divided to form dif-
ferent electoral districts or portions there-
of for the election of any national, state
or county officer, then to vote for such an
officer a person shall have been a resident
of the electoral district three months next
preceding the election."
Are there any further questions? Is
there any further discussion?
(There was no response.)
Are you ready for the question?
(Call for the question.)
The question arises on the adoption of
Amendment No. 10 to Committee Recom-
mendations S&E-1 and S&E-2, as amended
by Style Committee Report S&D-ll, as
modified. A vote Aye is a vote in favor of
the amendment. A vote No is a vote
against.
Cast your vote.
Has every delegate voted? Does any
delegate desire to change his vote? The
Clerk will record the vote.
There being 102 votes in the affirmative
and 3 votes in the negative, the motion is
carried, Amendment No. 10 is adopted,
section 2.01 as adopted on second reading
is now amended by Amendment No. 10.
Delegate Koss, in order to clear the
record, do you now formally withdraw your
motion no. 8 which was item 7-C on the
calendar?
DELEGATE KOSS: Mr. President, I
did not have opportunity to speak to you
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about this before. I know it is not quite
protocol for me to use this means to com-
municate with you.
After this item was adopted, it was
pointed out that what was accepted as a
style change at 2.01 was in fact a change
in substance and did violence to the intent
of the committee. There is an amendment
which is L which would rectify that mis-
take.
THE PRESIDENT: I am lost. What
mistake are you talking about? To what
section?
DELEGATE KOSS: Section 2.01.
THE PRESIDENT: The same section?
DELEGATE KOSS: Same section, line
16.
THE PRESIDENT: 16 of which print?
DELEGATE KOSS: Of the Style and
Drafting Report No. 11.
THE PRESIDENT: Yes.
DELEGATE KOSS: The draft that
came out of Style and Drafting says in
line 16 "shall be eligible to register to
vote". That in effect requires that when a
person goes to register he shall be a citi-
zen, and that he shall be nineteen. It was
never the intent nor has it been the prac-
tice in this State to tie those requirements
to the time you went to register. Those
were tied to the time of the election.
In order to make clear what the intent
of the Committee was, I think that intent
was borne out in the dialogue on the floor,
there is Amendment L, offered by various
members of the Committee to strike in line
16 the words "to register." That would
make clear the fact that the requirement
of citizenship and age are tied to the proc-
ess of voting and not to the process of
registration.
THE PRESIDENT: Before we get to
that, may we clear the record? Do you
formally withdraw your Amendment No.
8, which is Item 7-C on the calendar?
DELEGATE KOSS: I move to with-
draw it or I withdraw Motion No. 8.
THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Penniman,
what Delegate Koss has stated as to the
discussion which occurred, I think both in
the Committee of the Whole and on second
reading, is exactly in accord with the
recollection of the Chair. My hesitancy
comes about because I also recall that the
effort was made to amend this section so
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