Oklahoma Citizen Requirement for Voting Amendment (2022)

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Oklahoma Citizen Requirement for Voting Amendment
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Election date
November 8, 2022
Topic
Suffrage
Status
Not on the ballot
Type
Constitutional amendment		Origin
State legislature

The Oklahoma Citizen Requirement for Voting Amendment (SJR 27) was not on the ballot in Oklahoma as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment on November 8, 2022.

This amendment would have amended the Oklahoma Constitution to state that “only a citizen” (rather than "every citizen" of the U.S. who is 18 years old or older can vote in Oklahoma.[1]

Text of measure

The full text of the measure is available here.

Background

Citizen requirement for voting ballot measures

In 2018 and 2020, constitutional amendments to state that only a citizen (rather than every citizen) may vote were approved in four states.

Citizen requirement for voting ballot measures
Ballot measure Year Status
Florida Amendment 1, Citizen Requirement for Voting Initiative 2020  ApprovedaApproved
Alabama Citizen Requirement for Voting Amendment 2020  ApprovedaApproved
Colorado Citizen Requirement for Voting Initiative 2020  ApprovedaApproved
North Dakota Measure 2, Citizen Requirement for Voting Amendment Initiative 2018  ApprovedaApproved
Citizen Voters, Inc., which has sponsored ballot measures across the U.S. to amend state constitutions to say that only a citizen can vote rather than that every citizen can vote, updates a map on its website showing its past ballot measure efforts and future plans for ballot measures. The map can be found here.

Path to the ballot

See also: Amending the Oklahoma Constitution

To put a legislatively referred constitutional amendment before voters, a simple majority vote is required in both the Oklahoma State Senate and the Oklahoma House of Representatives.

2022 legislative session

This amendment was introduced as Senate Joint Resolution 27 on February 7, 2022. On March 23, 2022, the Senate passed the measure in a vote of 37-7 with four members excused. Of the nine Democratic Senators, seven voted against, one voted in favor, and one was absent. Of the 39 Republican Senators, 36 voted in favor, three were absent, and none voted against.[1] The measure was not passed in the opposite chamber before the legislature adjourned the 2022 legislative session on May 27, 2022.[2]

Vote in the Oklahoma State Senate
March 23, 2022
Requirement: Simple majority vote of all members in each chamber
Number of yes votes required: 25  Approveda
YesNoNot voting
Total3774
Total percent77.08%14.58%8.33%
Democrat171
Republican3603

See also

External links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Oklahoma State Legislature, "Senate Joint Resolution 27," accessed March 17, 2022
  2. ↑ Oklahoma Senate, "Calendar," accessed May 28, 2022
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