After a public hearing on Monday, July 22, 2024, the Joint Committee for the Review of Administrative Rules voted to suspend the Commission’s emergency rules that went into effect on June 10 and July 1:
- EL 6.05 – Relating to the Mandatory Use of Uniform Instructions
- EL 2.05, 2.07 – Relating to Procedures for Challenges to Nomination Papers
- EL 2.06, 2.08 – Relating to Procedures for Challenges to Declarations of Candidacy
These emergency rules are no longer in effect and no longer carry the force of law. Practically, this means that there is no longer an administrative rule in effect prohibiting clerks from altering the Commission’s required uniform instructions. This also means that there have been no changes to the administrative rules governing challenges to nomination papers, and the current rules remain in effect unchanged. Finally, this means that there are no longer administrative rules in effect providing procedure for challenges to declarations of candidacy.
The Commission is accordingly rescinding the clerk communications that were issued on June 10 and July 1 pertaining to these rules.
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