That is because Virginia attempted to pass a law that allowed a single physician to allow an at birth abortion for as little as the mental health of the mother.
I believe the current law reads that three doctors had to concur that there was substantial risk of death to the mother before a third trimester abortion could be performed. The change would have made it up to birth, a single physician signing off on it and as little as the mental health of the mother.
It failed but the āwant toā was clearly out there from Democrats.Ā
There are so many laws on ballots that it could probably be a degree course.
Some say things like, you have to declare your party before January 1 each election year (so in the previous year) and you canāt change. So a potential candidate canāt declare to be a Democrat in December 2023 and then in May 2024 decide to file paperwork to run as a Republican.
Each state is different though on dates (including actually different dates on āmajorā and āminorā parties), appeals, party affiliations, changes to the ballot by any means and so on. The Nevada alone for the 2023-2024 elections season is 9 pages with links to other pages.
Ā The states combined might have thousands of pages of election information. The Texas Election Code has about 160ā¦. Chapters.
I could understand where a person could read a line or two and say, āAha! Thatās the answerā and ignore 567 pages.Ā
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