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Hawaii Lower Voting Age to Sixteen Amendment (2016)

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Hawaii Lower Voting Age to Sixteen Amendment
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Election date
November 8, 2016
Topic
Suffrage
Status
Not on the ballot
Type
Constitutional amendment
Origin
State legislature


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The Hawaii Lower Voting Age to Sixteen Amendment was not put on the November 8, 2016 ballot in Hawaii as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment.

The measure would have lowered the qualifying voting age from 18 to 16 for state and local elections.[1]

Text of measure

Ballot title

The proposed ballot question was:[1]

Shall the qualifying age of voters for any state or location election bet lowered from eighteen years of age to sixteen years of age?[2]

Constitutional changes

See also: Article II, Hawaii Constitution

The proposed amendment would have amended Section 1 of Article II of the Hawaii Constitution. The following struck-through text would have been deleted and underlined text would have been added by the proposed measure's approval:[1]

Qualifications

Every citizen of the United States who shall have has attained the age of eighteen sixteen years, have has been a resident of this State not less than one year next preceding the election and be is a voter registered as provided by law, shall be qualified to vote in any state or local election.[2]

Path to the ballot

See also: Amending the Hawaii Constitution

The Hawaii State Legislature can propose a legislatively referred constitutional amendment in two different ways:

The measure was carried over into the 2016 legislative session.[3]

See also

External links

Footnotes

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Hawaii Legislature, "HB 1304," accessed February 16, 2015
  2. 2.0 2.1 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source. Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "quotedisclaimer" defined multiple times with different content
  3. Hawaii State Legislature, "HB1304," accessed February 1, 2016
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