Assembly Joint Resolution No. 3–Committee on
Constitutional Amendments

 

FILE NUMBER..........

 

Assembly Joint RESOLUTION—Proposing to amend the Constitution of the State of Nevada to revise provisions governing the right to vote and to repeal an obsolete provision relating to the election of United States Senators.

 

   Resolved by the Assembly and Senate of the State of Nevada,

 Jointly, That section 1 of article 2 of the Constitution of the State of

 Nevada be amended to read as follows:

   Section 1. All citizens of the United States (not laboring under the

 disabilities named in this constitution) of the age of eighteen years and

 upwards, who shall have actually, and not constructively, resided in the

 state six months, and in the district or county thirty days next preceding

 any election, shall be entitled to vote for all officers that now or hereafter

 may be elected by the people, and upon all questions submitted to the

 electors at such election; provided, that no person who has been or may be

 convicted of treason or felony in any state or territory of the United States,

 unless restored to civil rights, and no [idiot or insane] person who has

 been adjudicated mentally incompetent, unless restored to legal capacity,

 shall be entitled to the privilege of an elector. There shall be no denial of

 the elective franchise at any election on account of sex. The legislature

 may provide by law the conditions under which a citizen of the United

 States who does not have the status of an elector in another state and who

 does not meet the residence requirements of this section may vote in this

 state for President and Vice President of the United States.

And be it further

    Resolved, That section 34 of article 4 of the Constitution of the State

 of Nevada is hereby repealed.

 

²⁰~~~~~⁰¹