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Hawaii Voting for 16-Year-Olds Amendment (2020)
| Hawaii Voting for 16-Year-Olds Amendment | |
|---|---|
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| Election date November 3, 2020 | |
| Topic Suffrage | |
| Status Not on the ballot | |
| Type Constitutional amendment | Origin State legislature |
The Hawaii Voting for 16-Year-Olds Amendment was not on the ballot in Hawaii as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment on November 3, 2020.
Measure design
The measure would have lowered the voting age in Hawaii from 18 to 16 for any state or local election.[1]
Text of measure
Ballot title
The ballot title for the amendment would have been as follows:
| “ | Shall the qualifying age of voters for any state or local election be lowered from eighteen years of age to sixteen years of age?[2] | ” |
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:[1]
Section 1. 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 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. Constitutional amendments must be approved by a majority of the votes cast for the question, as long as the majority also is at least 50% of the total votes cast in the entire election. For measures approved at special elections by a majority of votes cast for the question, the majority must be at least 30% of the total number of registered voters in the state at the time.
2020 legislative session
This amendment was introduced as Senate Bill 4 on January 17, 2019, and carried over to the 2020 session. The measure was passed by the Senate on March 3, 2020, by a vote of 22-3. It was not passed in the House before the legislature adjourned on July 10, 2020.[1]
| Vote in the Hawaii State Senate | |||
| Requirement: Two-thirds (66.67 percent) vote in each chamber; or a simple majority vote in each chamber in two sessions | |||
Number of yes votes required: 17  | |||
| Yes | No | Not voting | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total | 22 | 3 | 0 |
| Total percent | 88% | 22% | 0% |
| Democrat | 21 | 3 | 0 |
| Republican | 1 | 0 | 0 |
See also
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Hawaii Legislature, "Senate Bill 4," accessed March 5, 2020
- ↑ 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
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