South Carolina Age of Suffrage, Amendment 1 (1974)
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The South Carolina Age of Suffrage, Amendment 1 was on the ballot in South Carolina on November 5, 1974, as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment. It was approved. [1]
Election results
| South Carolina Amendment 1 (1974) | ||||
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| Result | Votes | Percentage | ||
 Yes | 278,800 | 69.93% | ||
| No | 119,878 | 30.07% | ||
Election results via: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
Text of measure
The question on the ballot:
| Shall Section 4 of Article II of the Constitution of South Carolina, 1895, be amended to reduce the age of suffrage from twenty-one to eighteen; to abolish durational residence requirements as a prerequisite to suffrage, and to provide that any registered elector who has moved his place of residence within the state during the thirty days immediately prior to the date of any election shall be entitled to vote in his previous precinct of residence in such election only?[1][2] |
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Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. REFERENDA AND PRIMARY ELECTION MATERIALS [Computer file]. ICPSR ed. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producer and distributor], 1995. doi:10.3886/ICPSR00006.v1
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
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