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North Carolina "Mentally Incompetent" Cannot Vote Amendment (2014)
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| This measure was not put on an election ballot |
The North Carolina "Mentally Incompetent" Cannot Vote Amendment was not on the November 4, 2014 ballot in North Carolina as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment. The measure would have disqualified any person who is “adjudicated incompetent” by a state court from voting unless a court determined the person is “restored to competency.”[1]
The proposed amendment was sponsored in the North Carolina Legislature as Senate Bill 668.[2]
Support
Supporters
- Sen. Bill Cook (R-1)[2]
- Sen. Ronald Rabin (R-12)
- Sen. E.S. "Buck" Newton (R-11)
Path to the ballot
- See also: Amending the North Carolina Constitution
Section 4 of Article XIII of the North Carolina Constitution requires that a legislatively referred amendment go on the ballot after it is approved by a 60 percent vote in each chamber of the North Carolina State Legislature.
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