Maine Voting Age Requirement of 20, Proposed Constitutional Amendment No. 1 (1970)

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The Maine Voting Age Requirement of 20 Referendum, also known as Proposed Constitutional Amendment No. 1, was on the November 3, 1970 ballot in Maine as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment, where it was approved. The measure decreased the voting age requirement from 21 to 20 years old. This amended Section 1 of Article II of the Maine Constitution.

Aftermath

The voting age was further reduced the following year from 20 to 18 years old by a legislatively referred constitutional amendment.

Election results

Maine Proposed Constitutional Amendment No. 1 (1970)
Result		Votes	Percentage
a Yes		167,660	58.76%
No		117,668	41.24%

Election results via: Maine State Law and Legislative Reference Library, Proposed Constitutional Amendments 1820-

Text of measure

See also: Maine Constitution, Article II, Section 1

The language appeared on the ballot as:

“

PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT NO. 1 "Shall the Constitution be Amended as Proposed by a resolution of the Legislature to Reduce the Voting Age to Twenty Years?"

”

Similar measures

• Maine Voting Age Requirement of 18, Proposed Constitutional Amendment No. 1 (1971) a

See also

Suggest a link

• Maine 1970 ballot measures
• 1970 ballot measures
• List of Maine ballot measures
• History of Initiative & Referendum in Maine

External links

• Lewiston Daily Sun, "Specimen Ballot," October 27, 1970
• Maine State Law and Legislative Reference Library, Proposed Constitutional Amendments 1820-
• National Conference of State Legislatures, State Ballot Measures Database