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Iowa Voter Qualifications, Amendment 1 (2008)

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The Iowa Voter Qualifications Amendment, also known as Amendment 1, was on the ballot in Iowa on November 4, 2008, as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment. It was approved. The measure repealed Section 5 of Article II of the Iowa Constitution and replaced it with a section that provided that persons "adjudged mentally incompetent to vote" or persons "convicted of any infamous crime" not be eligible to vote.[1][2][3]

Election results

Iowa Amendment 1 (2008)
ResultVotesPercentage
Approveda Yes1,014,95282.46%
No215,91217.54%

Election results via: Iowa Secretary of State

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  1. ↑ Iowa Secretary of State, "Election Results and Statistics," accessed December 2, 2015
  2. ↑ The State Library of Iowa, "Amendments to the Constitution," accessed December 2, 2015
  3. ↑ The Iowa Legislature, "Iowa Constitutional Amendment Citations in the Iowa Acts," accessed December 2, 2015
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