North Carolina Repeal Voter Literacy Requirement Amendment (2018)
| North Carolina Repeal Voter Literacy Requirement Amendment | |
|---|---|
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| Election date November 6, 2018 | |
| Topic Suffrage | |
| Status Not on the ballot | |
| Type Constitutional amendment | Origin State legislature |
The North Carolina Repeal Voter Literacy Requirement Amendment was not on the ballot in North Carolina as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment on November 6, 2018.
The measure would have repealed Section 4 of Article VI of the North Carolina Constitution, which was designed to require citizens seeking to register to vote to be able to read and write in English any section of the constitution.[1]
Although Section 4 of Article VI remained in the North Carolina Constitution as of 2018, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 prohibited literacy tests. Therefore, North Carolina cannot require literacy tests to register to vote.
Text of measure
Ballot title
The ballot title would have been as follows:[1]
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[ ] For [ ] Against Repeal literacy requirement as a condition to register to vote.[2] |
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Constitutional changes
- See also: Article VI, North Carolina Constitution
The measure would have repealed Section 4 of Article VI of the North Carolina Constitution. The following text would have been repealed:[1]
Every person presenting himself for registration shall be able to read and write any section of the Constitution in the English language.[2]
Path to the ballot
- See also: Amending the North Carolina Constitution
In North Carolina, a constitutional amendment must be passed by a 60 percent vote in each house of the state legislature during one legislative session.
The amendment was introduced into the legislature as House Bill 148 on February 21, 2017. The North Carolina House of Representatives approved the amendment, 119 to 0 with one member absent, on April 25, 2017.[3] The state Senate did not vote on the amendment before the legislature adjourned in 2018.
House vote
April 25, 2017[3]
| North Carolina HB 148 House Vote | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Result | Votes | Percentage | ||
 Yes | 119 | 100.00% | ||
| No | 0 | 0.00% | ||
| Partisan breakdown of House votes | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party Affiliation | Yes | No | Excused | Total |
| Democrat | 45 | 0 | 1 | 46 |
| Republican | 74 | 0 | 0 | 74 |
| Total | 119 | 0 | 1 | 120 |
See also
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 General Assembly of North Carolina, "House Bill 148," accessed April 25, 2017
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source. Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; name "quotedisclaimer" defined multiple times with different content - ↑ 3.0 3.1 General Assembly of North Carolina, "HB 148 History," accessed April 25, 2017
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