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New Mexico Referendum: Telephone Rates (1982)
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The New Mexico Referendum: Telephone Rates, also known as Constitutional Amendment No. 6, was on the ballot in New Mexico on November 2, 1982, as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment. It was approved. The referendum allowed for directory advertising and other expenses to be used for fixing rates for telephone and telegraph companies.[1]
Election results
| New Mexico Constitutional Amendment No. 6 (1982) | ||||
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| Result | Votes | Percentage | ||
 Yes | 201,014 | 76.95% | ||
| No | 60,212 | 23.05% | ||
Election results via: New Mexico Secretary of State
Text of measure
The question on the ballot:
| Proposing an amendment to Article 11, Section 7 of the Constitution of New Mexico to include directory advertising and other directory listing service earning, investment and expenditures in fixing telephone and telegraph company rates.[2] |
See also
- New Mexico 1982 ballot measures
- 1982 ballot measures
- List of New Mexico ballot measures
- History of Initiative & Referendum in New Mexico
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, "Part 43: Referenda Elections for New Mexico," accessed August 4, 2015
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
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