New Mexico Referendum: Qualifications for Voting (1973)
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The New Mexico Referendum: Qualifications for Voting, also known as Constitutional Amendment No. 4, was on the ballot in New Mexico on November 6, 1973, as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment. It was approved. The referendum addressed the qualifications for voting.[1]
Election results
| New Mexico Constitutional Amendment No. 4 (1973) | ||||
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| Result | Votes | Percentage | ||
 Yes | 25,198 | 60.50% | ||
| No | 16,455 | 39.50% | ||
Election results via: New Mexico Secretary of State
Text of measure
The question on the ballot:
| Proposing an amendment to Article 7, Section 1 of the Constitution of New Mexico to provide for qualifications of voting. (Article XIX, Section 1: ".....Provided, that no amendment shall apply to or affect the provisions of sections one and three of article VII hereof, on elective franchise, and sections eight and ten of article XII hereof, on education, unless it be proposed by vote of three-fourths of the members elected to each house and be ratified by a vote of the people of this state in an election at which at least three-fourths of the electors voting in the whole state and at least two-thirds of those voting in each county in the state shall vote for such amendment.")[2] |
See also
- New Mexico 1973 ballot measures
- 1973 ballot measures
- List of New Mexico ballot measures
- History of Initiative & Referendum in New Mexico
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Ballotpedia, "Part 43: Referenda Elections for New Mexico," accessed July 27, 2015
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
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