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Hawaii Phrasing of Constitutional Amendments, Amendment 2 (1980)
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The Hawaii Phrasing of Constitutional Amendments, Amendment 2, also known as Amendment 2, was on the ballot in Hawaii on November 4, 1980, as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment. It was approved. The amendment proposed, per Senate Bill No. 1703-80 of the Tenth Legislature, Regular Session of 1980, that Article XVII, Section 2 of the Hawaiian constitution be amended to state that amendment proposals to the constitution be submitted to voters in the form of a question on a single issue, that each question have a space for marking “yes” or “no” and that a full text version be available to the public at polling stations on election day. A voter education program outlining each amendment must be conducted and each amendment must receive a majority of all the votes tallied on the question equal to at least 50 percent of the total vote cast at the election.[1]
Election results
| Hawaii Amendment 2 (1980) | ||||
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| Result | Votes | Percentage | ||
 Yes | 187,093 | 72.02% | ||
| No | 72,682 | 27.98% | ||
Election results via: Referenda and Primary Elections for Hawaii, 1968-1990
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