LIMITS ABSENTEE VOTING ELIGIBILITY - Louisiana lawmakers are plowing ahead with a contested emergency plan to run the state’s fall elections during the pandemic. However the plan offered by Republicans on the House and Governmental Affairs Committee in a near party-bloc vote Wednesday - eliminates most of the coronavirus-related reasons for a person to request an absentee ballot. The Plan has little chance of being used for the Nov. 3 presidential election or a Dec. 5 state election because Governor John Bel Edwards, a Democrat, intends to block it.
"I don't believe that that plan goes far enough," Edwards said. "It doesn't take into account the seriousness of this global pandemic, of the health and safety of the voters. It doesn't incorporate CDC guidance."
The emergency plan offered by GOP Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin now goes to the full House for consideration.
