Back from the dead. Was Lex Anteinternet: Voter cross over bill bits the dust. . sort of.

A few days we reported this:

Voter cross over bill bits the dust. . sort of.

Just as we predicted, we might note.

This is the bill in its original form, which would have prevented voters from switching parties a certain number of days prior to the primary election.  An amended version of the bill, which would create an open non partisan primary, lives on, providing a lesson about those starting wars, perhaps, never knowing where they might end, although we predict that one will fail as well.

We were too fast, it turns out.

Due to political machinations, in which the leadership of the GOP in the Senate moved this bill from committee to committee until it found a committee that liked it, this bill is back.

That's correct.

This bill hadn't made it out of committee in the Senate. And then it didn't make it out of another committee.  Not it has.  It made it out of the Agriculture Committee.

Whatever a person thinks about this bill, that's really more than a little bit odd and is one of the thins that makes average folks not too keen on politics.  You'd think the Senate Agriculture Committee would deal with, well, agriculture.

Not always, apparently.

The other bill on this topic, regarding open primaries, has since died since the earlier entry.