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The Illinois Voting Age Amendment was on the ballot in Illinois on December 15, 1970, as a constitutional convention referral. It was defeated. It proposed to lower the voting age to 18.^[1] ^[2]

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Illinois Voting Age Amendment (December 1970)
Result		Votes	Percentage
d No		1,052,924	54.76%
Yes		869,816	45.24%

Election results via: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)

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