HOUSE AMENDMENT

    dhs-21                                        Bill No. HB 1527

    Amendment No.     (for drafter's use only)

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11  Representative(s) Logan offered the following:

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13         Amendment (with title amendment) 

14         On page 6, line 30, of the bill

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17         (10)  Notwithstanding subsection (4) or any other

18  provision of law to the contrary, a person registered as an

19  independent or without party affiliation may vote in the

20  presidential preference primary of the political party of such

21  person's choice. The votes cast by such voters shall count

22  toward compiling the percentages of total votes cast for the

23  individual candidates or their delegates, but shall not count

24  toward the awarding of delegates on behalf of any candidate.

25         Section 2.  Section 101.021, Florida Statutes, is

26  amended to read:

27         101.021  Elector to vote the primary ballot of the

28  political party in which he or she is registered.--In a

29  primary election a qualified elector is entitled to vote the

30  official primary election ballot of the political party

31  designated in the elector's registration, and no other.  It is

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                                                   HOUSE AMENDMENT

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 1  unlawful for any elector to vote in a primary for any

 2  candidate running for nomination from a party other than that

 3  in which such elector is registered. This section does not

 4  apply to a presidential preference primary conducted pursuant

 5  to s. 103.101.

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 9  And the title is amended as follows:

10         On page 1, line 9, after the semicolon,

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13         authorizing persons registered as independent

14         or without party affiliation to vote in the

15         presidential preference primary of any

16         political party; prohibiting such votes from

17         counting toward the awarding of delegates;

18         amending s. 101.021, F.S., relating to voting

19         only the primary ballot of the political party

20         in which registered, to conform;

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