Early voting for the November 8th election is underway through next Tuesday. In addition to congressional and local races, your ballot will include eight proposed constitutional amendments. Today we take a look at proposed Amendment Three with Public Affairs Research Council's Stephen Procopio.
As it stands now, public employee who are civil servants cannot engage in any political activity.
"They can't do anything with electioneering. They can't support or endorse a candidate. They can't make donations. This amendment would allow them to be in ads or photos with their family." says Procopio.
Procopio says the proposed amendment would also let civil service employees attend campaign events during their off-duty hours.
"And just sort of makes sense that if someone's in your family that they should be in an ad with you." Procopio said.
Procopio says it's a long list of family members and is very inclusive.
On the flip side, he says there are concerns about eroding protections for state employees.
"...whether you would be undermining the Civil Service system which is there to provide (sort of) layer of protection between politicians and the employees to have to actually implement whatever the elected officials have..."
The change would affect about 51,000 state and local employees.