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  1. Overview: Utah State Constitutional Convention 1895 (2020 Edition)
  2. Full Record: Utah State Constitutional Convention 1895 (2020 Edition)
  3. Committee:The Convention
  4. Session: 1895-04-04 10:00:00
  5. Event type: CREATE

Utah State Constitutional Convention 1895 (2020 Edition)

Proceedings and Debates of the Convention Assembled to Adopt a Constitution for the State of Utah

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Session 7373: 1895-04-04 10:00:00

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Article on Election Rights and Suffrage [Article No. 6.3]

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Section 1. Every citizen of the United States, not laboring under any of the disabilities named in this Constitution, of the age of twenty-one years and over, who shall have resided in the State one year, and in the county six months, and in the voting precinct sixty days, next preceding any election, shall be entitled to vote for all officers that now are or hereafter may be elected by the people, and upon all questions submitted to the electors at such election, except as herein otherwise provided.

Section 2. Every citizen of the United States of the age of 21 years and upwards who shall have been a citizen for ninety days, who has resided in the state or territory one year, in the county four months, and in the precinct sixty days next preceding any election shall be entitled to vote at such election except as herein otherwise provided.

Section 3. Electors shall in all cases except treason, felony or breach of the peace be privileged from arrest on the days of election during their attendance at elections and going to and returning therefrom.

Section 4. No elector shall be obliged to perform militia duty on the day of election except in time of war and public danger.

Section 5. No person shall be deemed a qualified elector of this state unless such person be a citizen of the United States.

Section 6. No idiots, insane persons, or persons convicted of treason or crime against the elective franchise, unless restored to civil rights, shall be permitted to vote at any election or be eligible to hold office in this state.

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Section 8. No property qualification shall ever be required for any person to vote or hold office except in elections levying a special tax or creating indebtedness, no property qualification shall ever be required for any person to vote or hold office.

Section 9. All elections shall be by secret ballot. Nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent the use of any machine or mechanical contrivance for the purpose of receiving and registering the votes cast at any election, providing that secrecy in voting be preserved.

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