Oklahoma Citizen Requirement for Voting and Voter Identification Amendment (2022)
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 | |||
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Ballot measure | Year | Status | |
Florida Amendment 1, Citizen Requirement for Voting Initiative | 2020 | ![]() | |
Alabama Citizen Requirement for Voting Amendment | 2020 | ![]() | |
Colorado Citizen Requirement for Voting Initiative | 2020 | ![]() | |
North Dakota Measure 2, Citizen Requirement for Voting Amendment Initiative | 2018 | ![]() |
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]
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