The Alabama Voter Requirements, Amendment 5, also known as Amendment 5, was on the ballot in Alabama on December 11, 1951, as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment. It was approved. The amendment proposed to amend the constitution. The amendment proposed that citizens of the United States over the age of 21 and have the qualifications as to residence prescribed in Section 178 of this Article, would be qualified to register as electors provided they shall not be disqualified under Section 182 of this constitution: those who can read and write any article of the constitution of the United States in the English language which may be submitted to them by the Board of Registrars, provided, however, that no persons shall be entitled to register as electors except those who are of good character and who embrace the duties and obligations of citizenship under the constitution of the United States and the state of Alabama, and provided that in order to aid the members of the boards of registrars, who are hereby constituted and declared to be judicial officers, to judicially determine if applicants to register have the qualifications, each applicant shall be furnished by the board of registrars a written questionnaire, which questionnaire shall be filled out and answered in the presence of the board.[1]
Election results
| Alabama Amendment 5 (December 1951) |
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| Result | Votes | Percentage |
 a Yes | 60,357 | 50.15% |
| No | 59,988 | 49.85% |
Election results via: Alabama Official and Statistical Register, 1951
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