Oklahoma Citizen Requirement for Voting and Voter Identification Amendment (2022)

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Oklahoma Citizen Requirement for Voting and Voter Identification 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 and Voter Identification Amendment was not on the ballot in Oklahoma as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment on November 8, 2022.

The ballot measure would have amended the Oklahoma Constitution to state that “only a citizen” of the U.S. (rather than "every citizen") who is 18 years old or older and can vote in Oklahoma. It would also have required a valid federal, state, or tribal identification card to vote.[1]

Text of measure

The full text of the measure is available here.

Background

Citizen requirement for voting ballot measures

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

In Oklahoma, a constitutional amendment requires a simple majority vote in both chambers of the Oklahoma State Legislature.

The constitutional amendment was introduced as House Joint Resolution 1048 during the 2022 legislative session. On March 22, the state House voted 77-19, with four members excused, to pass the proposal.[1]

The measure was not passed in the opposite chamber before the legislature adjourned the 2022 legislative session on May 27, 2022.[2]

See also

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