South Carolina Amendment on Impeachment, Amendment 5 (1970)
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The South Carolina Amendment on Impeachment, Amendment 5 was on the ballot in South Carolina on November 3, 1970, as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment. It was approved. This measure amended the Constitution to expand on the officials subject to impeachment.[1]
Election results
| South Carolina Amendment 5 (1970) | ||||
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| Result | Votes | Percentage | ||
 Yes | 152,625 | 78.36% | ||
| No | 42,160 | 21.64% | ||
Election results via: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
Text of measure
The question on the ballot:
| "Shall Article XV of the Constitution of this State, relating to impeachment, be amended so as to further specify officials subject to impeachment and to provide that impeachment shall be for cases of serious crimes or serious misconduct in office?"[2][3] |
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Footnotes
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
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