South Carolina Grand and Petit Juries, Amendment 1B (1988)
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The South Carolina Grand and Petit Juries, Amendment 1B was on the ballot in South Carolina on November 8, 1988, as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment. It was approved. [1]
Election results
| South Carolina Amendment 1B (1988) | ||||
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| Result | Votes | Percentage | ||
 Yes | 514,307 | 70.38% | ||
| No | 216,399 | 29.62% | ||
Election results via: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
Text of measure
The question on the ballot:
| Shall Section 11 of Article I of the Constitution of this State, relating to the requirement that no person may be held to answer for any crime where the punishment exceeds a fine of two hundred dollars or imprisonment for thirty days, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury where the crime has been committed with certain expectations be amended so as to provide that nothing in the Constitution is deemed to limit or prohibit the establishment by the General Assembly of a state grand jury with the authority to return indictments irrespective of the county where the crime has been committed and with that other authority, including procedure, as the General Assembly may provide?[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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