Louisiana First Offender Pardon Amendment (1968)
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The Louisiana First Offender Pardon Amendment, also known as Amendment 18, was on the ballot in Louisiana on November 5, 1968, as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment. It was approved. It proposed that a first offender be eligible for pardon immediately upon sentence completion without needing a written recommendation.[1]
Election results
| Louisiana Amendment 18 (1968) | ||||
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| Result | Votes | Percentage | ||
 Yes | 251,366 | 51.13% | ||
| No | 240,297 | 48.87% | ||
Election results via: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
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