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1998 SESSION

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HB 1094 Constitutional amendment; qualifications of voter, overseas employees.

Introduced by: Jay Katzen | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

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Constitutional amendment (voter referendum); qualifications of voters; overseas employees. Provides for a referendum at the November 3, 1998, election on a proposed amendment which will authorize the General Assembly to provide by law that overseas employees, their spouses and dependents living with them, otherwise qualified to vote in the Commonwealth, may continue to vote in the Commonwealth although they relinquish their Virginia place of abode while overseas. The Constitution's definition of residence for purposes of voter qualification now requires both domicile and "a place of abode."


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