- Event type: CREATE_FROM
Utah State Constitutional Convention 1895 (2020 Edition)
Proceedings and Debates of the Convention Assembled to Adopt a Constitution for the State of Utah
Committee on Elections and Right of Suffrage
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Proposition relating to Election Franchise[File No. 3]
Resolved, that in order to preserve the purity of the ballot and to prevent the exercise of improper influences at elections, the following be inserted in the Constitution, namely:
No person who shall receive, accept or offer to accept, or pay, offer or promise to pay, contribute, or promise to contribute to another to be paid or used, any money or other valuable things as compensation or reward, for the giving or withholding any such vote or who shall make or become directly or indirectly interested in any bet or wager, depending upon the result of any election, shall vote at such election, and upon challenge for such cause the person so challenged before the officer authorized for that purpose, shall receive his vote, shall swear or affirm before such officer that he has not received or offered, or promised to pay, contribute, offered or promised to contribute to another to be paid or used any money or other valuable things as a compensation or reward for the giving or withholding of vote at such election and has not made any promise to influence the giving or withholding of any such vote nor made or become directly or indirectly interested in any bet or wager depending upon the result of such election.
The Legislature shall enact laws making a violation of any provisions of this section a crime and provide the punishment therefor, and the Legislature shall also enact laws excluding from the right of suffrage all persons convicted under the provisions of this section and also persons convicted of bribery or of any infamous crime.
Decisions yet to be taken
- Proposition relating to Election Franchise[File No. 3] (introduced on 1895-03-12 10:00:00 - CREATE_FROM - e697287) [This document]
Document Timeline
- Proposition relating to Election Franchise[File No. 3] (introduced on 1895-03-12 10:00:00 - CREATE_FROM - e697287) [This document] [view current proposal at this moment]