ST. CROIX — Senator Kenneth Gittens, chairman of the\u00a0Committee on Rules and Judiciary, is advising the general public through a press release issued on Monday of upcoming\u00a0working sessions in the continued series on Election Reform.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis next session in the series that began in June, will be held on St. Croix, this\u00a0Wednesday and Thursday; October 28th and 29th at the V.I. Port Authority Administrative\u00a0Conference Room, located at the Henry E. Rholsen Airport. These very intense working\u00a0sessions will begin at 9 a.m. each day and we will work throughout the day until 5 p.m.,\u201d said the second-term Democrat.<\/p>\n
Mr. Gittens said a lot of tentative changes have been made to the varying sections of\u00a0Title 18 of the V.I. Code that speaks to the Election System and a number of bill drafts\u00a0have been submitted to the Legislature\u2019s Office of Legal Counsel for their review and\u00a0draft.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are making great headway as we work to identify the issues and concerns,\u00a0including ambiguity and contradictions in the current laws, some that have led to the\u00a0negative impact on our election process. We welcome the public to observe the process \u00a0as we continue to engage in the various discussions and remind them that public hearings\u00a0and community meetings will be scheduled at a later date to allow for further\u00a0participation from the general public,\u201d Gittens added.<\/p>\n
He concluded by stating that the committee made up of election officials and legislators\u00a0have set a date of early next year to be completed with this final phase of the process and\u00a0all parties who have been actively involved are working feverishly towards that end.<\/p>\n
Inquiries can be addressed to Janella James, Legislative Director or Fiona Stokes,\u00a0Legislative Correspondent within my office at (340) 712-2279 or via email\u00a0jljames@legvi.org or fstokes@legvi.org.<\/p>\n
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Feature Image: Picture collage of election day, 2014.<\/em><\/p>\n Image Credit: VIC.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ST. CROIX — Senator Kenneth Gittens, chairman of the\u00a0Committee on Rules and Judiciary, is advising the general public through a press release issued on Monday of upcoming\u00a0working sessions in the continued series on Election Reform. \u201cThis next session in the series that began in June, will be held on St. Croix, this\u00a0Wednesday and Thursday; October […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":23990,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[191,147],"tags":[2314,1314],"yoast_head":"\n