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South Carolina Requirements of Jurors, Amendment 5 (1988)
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The South Carolina Requirements of Jurors, Amendment 5 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 5 (1988) | ||||
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| Result | Votes | Percentage | ||
 Yes | 466,090 | 63.09% | ||
| No | 272,635 | 36.91% | ||
Election results via: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
Text of measure
The question on the ballot:
| Must Section 22 of Article V of the Constitution of this State be amended so as to delete the requirement that jurors must be qualified electors of this State and be of good moral character, and provide that jurors must be residents of this State and have such other qualifications as the General Assembly may prescribe?[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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