Assembly committee votes to nix proposed election observer rules

An Assembly committee voted 5-2 along party lines to recommend killing proposed standards for election observers over GOP concerns they lacked penalties for local officials who fail to follow the rules.
Representatives of the state Elections Commission, which proposed the administrative rules, testified last month they don’t have the authority to propose penalties for local elections officials as ...

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