Hawaii Political Affiliation Requirement Amendment (2016)
| Hawaii Political Affiliation Requirement Amendment | |
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| Election date November 8, 2016 | |
| Topic Suffrage | |
| Status Not on the ballot | |
| Type Constitutional amendment | Origin State legislature |
| Voting on Suffrage |
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The Hawaii Political Affiliation Requirement Amendment was not put on the November 8, 2016 ballot in Hawaii as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment.
The measure would have required a citizen to declare his or her political party preference or nonpartisanship in order to vote in a primary election.[1]
Text of measure
Ballot title
The proposed ballot question was:[1]
| “ | Shall the prohibition against requiring a person to declare a political party preference or nonpartisanship as a condition of voting in any primary or special primary election be repealed?[2] | ” |
Constitutional changes
- See also: Article II, Hawaii Constitution
The proposed amendment would have amended Section 4 of Article II of the Hawaii Constitution. The following struck-through text would have been deleted by the proposed measure's approval:[1]
The legislature shall provide for the registration of voters and for absentee voting and shall prescribe the method of voting at all elections. Secrecy of voting shall be preserved; provided that no person shall be required to declare a party preference or nonpartisanship as a condition of voting in any primary or special primary election. Secrecy of voting and choice of political party affiliation or nonpartisanship shall be preserved.[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:
- Through a two-thirds vote in both the Hawaii State Senate and the Hawaii House of Representatives, held in one legislative session.
- Through a simple majority vote in both chambers, held in two successive sessions of the legislature.
The measure was carried over to the 2016 legislative session.[3]
See also
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Hawaii Legislature, "HB 339," accessed February 18, 2015
- ↑ 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 - ↑ Hawaii State Legislature, "Measure status," accessed February 1, 2016
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