Utah Proposition 1, Change Residency Requirements to Vote Amendment (1970)

Utah Proposition 1
Election date November 3, 1970
Topic Residency voting requirements
Status Approved
Type Legislatively referred constitutional amendment	Origin State legislature

Utah Proposition 1 was on the ballot as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment in Utah on November 3, 1970. It was approved.

A "yes" vote supported amending the constitution to require that citizens must have lived: in the state for six months and in their county for 60 days to vote in an election; and in the state for the 30 days immediately before an election if they vote for the U.S. president and vice president only.

A "no" vote opposed amending the constitution, thus maintaining the requirement that in order to vote, an individual must: have been a citizen for 90 days;  have resided in the state one year;  have resided in their county four months; and  have resided in their precinct for 60 days.

Election results

Utah Proposition 1
Result		Votes	Percentage
Yes		177,602	53.77%
No		152,704	46.23%

Results are officially certified.

Source

Text of measure

Ballot title

The ballot title for Proposition 1 was as follows:

“

The State Constitution shall be amended to provide that a resident of the state for six months and of a county for 60 days is entitled to vote; and, in an election for president and vice president of the United States, residency in Utah of 30 days shall entitle a person to vote. (Amending Section 2 of Article IV)

”

Full Text

The full text of this measure is available here.

Path to the ballot

See also: Amending the Utah Constitution

A two-thirds majority vote in both the legislative chambers vote is required during one legislative session for the Utah State Legislature to place a constitutional amendment on the ballot. That amounts to a minimum of 50 votes in the Utah House of Representatives and 20 votes in the Utah State Senate, assuming no vacancies. Amendments do not require the governor's signature to be referred to the ballot.

See also

1970 Measures

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• Residency voting requirements on the ballot
• 1970 legislative sessions

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