Wednesday, February 10, 2010

House Bill 244 - Delaware Code Relating to Notice of School Elections - Signed by the Governor

Introduced on June 17, 2009
Signed by the Governor on February 1, 2010

AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO NOTICE OF SCHOOL ELECTIONS.

Synopsis: This bill, amends the notice requirements for school districts conducting elections pursuant to Title 14, Chapters 10, 19, 20, and 21. It also provides a deadline for a school district to return voter affidavits if given to it and makes voting twice in a school election a crime. It would clarify the content of the notice to be posted by school districts conducting referenda to raise local taxes and/or issue local bonds and authorizes the Department of Elections to cancel an election to raise local taxes and/or issue bonds if the notice requirements are not met.

To read more, click on the link below.
http://legis.delaware.gov/lis/lis145.nsf/vwlegislation/HB+244
Information provided by the State of Delaware website - Delaware General Assembly

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

Has there been a lot of double voting happening and how much? The second half of the post sounds like it is a very necessary change.