Hawaii Primary Voting for 17-Year-Olds Amendment (2022)
| Hawaii Primary Voting for 17-Year-Olds Amendment (2022) | |
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| Election date November 8, 2022 | |
| Topic Suffrage | |
| Status Not on the ballot | |
| Type Constitutional amendment | Origin State legislature |
The Hawaii Primary Voting for 17-Year-Olds Amendment was not on the ballot in Hawaii as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment on November 8, 2022.[1]
This amendment would have allowed 17-year-olds that will be 18 by the time of a general election to vote in the primary election.[1]
Text of the measure
Constitutional changes
- See also: Article II, Hawaii Constitution
The measure would have amended section 1 of Article II of the state constitution. The following underlined text would have been added, and struck-through text would have been deleted:[2]
Section 1. Every citizen of the United States who shall
have attained the age of eighteen years, have been a resident of
this State not less than one year next preceding the election
and be a voter registered as provided by law, shall be qualified
to vote in any state or local election.; provided that every
citizen of the United States who is seventeen years of age but
will attain the age of eighteen years by the date of the next
general election, has been a resident of this State not less
than thirty days immediately preceding the next primary election
and is a voter registered as provided by law, shall be qualified
to vote beginning with the primary election immediately
preceding the general election by which the citizen will attain
the age of eighteen years and any intervening or co—occurring
special election.[3]
Path to the ballot
- See also: Amending the Hawaii Constitution
The state process
The Hawaii State Legislature can put a proposed amendment on the ballot upon either a two-thirds (66.67%) majority vote in both chambers of the legislature in the same session or two simple majority votes in both chambers held in two successive sessions.
2021 legislative session
This amendment was introduced as Senate Bill 551. The Senate approved the measure 24-1 on March 9, 2021.[1]
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Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Hawaii State Legislature, "Senate Bill 551," accessed March 12, 2021
- ↑ Hawaii Legislature, "Senate Bill 551 text," accessed March 12, 2021
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source.
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