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Hawaii State and Local Primary Voting for 17-Year-Olds Amendment (2022)
| Hawaii State and Local Primary Voting for 17-Year-Olds Amendment | |
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| Election date November 8, 2022 | |
| Topic Suffrage | |
| Status Not on the ballot | |
| Type Constitutional amendment | Origin State legislature |
The Hawaii State and Local 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 who will be 18 by the general election to vote in primaries and special elections of state and local elections.[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 otherwise qualified to vote pursuant to this section and who is seventeen years of age, but will attain the age of eighteen years by the date of the next state or local general election, shall be qualified to vote, beginning with the state or local primary election immediately preceding the state or local general election by which the citizen will attain the age of eighteen years, and at any co-occurring or intervening 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.
2022 legislative session
This amendment was introduced as Senate Bill 2178. The Senate approved the measure 24-1 on March 8, 2022.[1]
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Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Hawaii State Legislature, "Senate Bill 2178," accessed March 11, 2022
- ↑ Hawaii Legislature, "Senate Bill 551 text," accessed March 12, 2021
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source.
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