Assembly Joint Resolution No. 3 of the 71st Session–Committee
on Constitutional Amendments
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State of Nevada is hereby repealed.
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