I recently attended a State Senate hearing from the Elections committee. It was my first time giving testimony. The topic was my bill on changing the rules for local town committees. Expanding the number of members to unlimited and reducing the period of elections from 4 years to 2 years. I’m looking for more help getting the word out about the bill, ping me if interested.
In the session I listened to other petitioners for other bills, and you’d think the elections committee would be dry and dull. Rather than dull, we heard from people talking about Russian influence on elections, to Boston city Councillors about their elections.
One bill promoted by a to set up a commission to explore how the state can increase engagement from voters during primary elections. From that last conversation I was thinking about another idea, and bill. The idea of setting up a commission to review local elections in the charter for the Commonwealth. I’ve noticed that Connecticut has regularly updated their laws, I don’t think Massachusetts has in the same way. Here in Massachusetts the rule for reducing the number of members in local town committees down to 35 was changed in 1938 from unlimited. I want to set up a commission to explore how we can get citizens more involved in local town committees. Local political party committees are the foundation of our political infrastructure.