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South Carolina Amendment on Penal Institutions, Amendment 4 (1970)
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The South Carolina Amendment on Penal Institutions, Amendment 4 was on the ballot in South Carolina on November 3, 1970, as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment. It was approved. [1]
Election results
| South Carolina Amendment 4 (1970) | ||||
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| Result | Votes | Percentage | ||
 Yes | 154,724 | 78.75% | ||
| No | 41,758 | 21.25% | ||
Election results via: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
Text of measure
The question on the ballot:
| "Shall Article XII of the Constitution of this State, relating to charitable and penal institutions, be amended by deleting all current provisions and substituting in lieu thereof general provisions for the functions of government as to health, welfare, safety, natural resources and penal institutions with a provision for separate confinement of juveniles under the age of seventeen?"[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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