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S.F. No. 858 - Nonpartisan Legislative Elections
Author: Senator Steve Dille
Prepared by: Peter S. Wattson, Senate Counsel (651/296-3812)
Date: February 28, 2005

S.F. No. 858 would return Minnesota to a nonpartisan Legislature, as was the case for 60 years between the passage of Laws 1913, ch. 389, and Laws 1973, ch. 3. The ballot for legislative candidates would not show their party affiliation and there would be no party primary for them.

Section 1 eliminates the party accounts in the state elections campaign fund and gives the income tax checkoff money for a political party that would otherwise have gone to legislative candidates to the party's state committee.

Section 2 strikes legislative candidates from the partisan primary ballot.

Section 3 adds legislative candidates to the nonpartisan primary ballot.

Section 4 strikes a reference to the order in which legislative candidates appear on the partisan ballot.

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cc: Kelly Wolfe




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