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Amend the bill by striking out the title and substituting the following:
‘An Act To Provide for the Nonpartisan Election of County Treasurer, Sheriff and Register of Deeds’
Amend the bill by striking out all of sections 1, 2, 5 and 6.
Amend the bill by relettering or renumbering any nonconsecutive Part letter or section number to read consecutively.
 
SUMMARY
This amendment is the minority report and removes the provisions in the bill requiring that a county commissioner and a district attorney be elected on a nonpartisan ballot and that a vacancy in either office be filled without regard to political affiliation. It leaves the requirement in the bill that a county treasurer, sheriff and register of deeds be elected on a nonpartisan ballot and that a vacancy in any of those offices be filled without regard to political affiliation.