REFERENCE TITLE: voting age; sixteen years |
State of Arizona Senate Fifty-third Legislature Second Regular Session 2018
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SCR 1022 |
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Introduced by Senators Mendez: Dalessandro, Quezada; Representatives Benally, Fernandez, Gabaldón
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A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
proposing an amendment to the constitution of Arizona; amending article VII, section 2, Constitution of Arizona; relating to voting age.
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Be it resolved by the Senate of the State of Arizona, the House of Representatives concurring:
1. Article VII, section 2, Constitution of Arizona, is proposed to be amended as follows if approved by the voters and on proclamation of the Governor:
2. Qualifications of voters; disqualification
Section 2. A. No
person shall be entitled to vote at any general election, or for any office that
now is, or hereafter may be, elective by the people, or upon any question which
may be submitted to a vote of the people, unless such person be a citizen of
the United States of the age of eighteen sixteen years or over, and
shall have resided in the state for the period of time preceding such election
as prescribed by law, provided that qualifications for voters at a general
election for the purpose of electing presidential electors shall be as
prescribed by law. The word "citizen" shall include persons of the
male and female sex.
B. The rights of citizens of the United States to vote and hold office shall not be denied or abridged by the state, or any political division or municipality thereof, on account of sex, and the right to register, to vote and to hold office under any law now in effect, or which may hereafter be enacted, is hereby extended to, and conferred upon males and females alike.
C. No person who is
adjudicated an incapacitated person shall be qualified to vote at any election,
nor shall any person convicted of treason or felony,
be qualified to vote at any election unless restored to civil rights.
2. The Secretary of State shall submit this proposition to the voters at the next general election as provided by article XXI, Constitution of Arizona.