1971 ballot measures
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Florida
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November 2
Type | Title | Subject | Description | Result |
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LRCA | Amendment 1 | Taxes | Creates a corporate income tax |
Kansas
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April 6
Type | Title | Subject | Description | Result |
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LRCA | Amendment 1 | Constitutional Rights | Proposes to outline the qualifications to vote |
Kentucky
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November 2
Type | Title | Subject | Description | Result |
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LRCA | Senior Tax Exemption Referendum | Taxes | Exempts single-family residences owned and occupied by a person aged 65 or older up to $6,500 of the assessed value |
Maine
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November 2
Type | Title | Subject | Description | Result |
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IndISS | Referendum Question | Taxes | Repeals state income tax | |
LRCA | Proposed Constitutional Amendment No. 1 | Suffrage | Reduces voting age requirement from 20 to 18 years old | |
LRCA | Proposed Constitutional Amendment No. 2 | State Exec | Continues Governor's term in office until his successor is determined and take the oath of office | |
LRCA | Proposed Constitutional Amendment No. 3 | Education | Provides government credit for loans to state college students |
Montana
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November 2
Type | Title | Subject | Description | Result |
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LRSS | R-68 | Taxes | Relates to the sales tax and increased income tax |
Nevada
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June 8
Type | Title | Subject | Description | Result |
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LRCA | Question 1 | Elections | Proposes amending Section 1 of Article 2 of the Constitution to to reduce the minimum voting age from 21 years to 18 years. |
New Jersey
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November 2
Type | Title | Subject | Description | Result |
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BI | Question 1 | Bond issues | Allows for $155 million in bonds for higher education buildings. | |
LRCA | Question 2 | Taxes | Excludes federal benefits from determining eligibility for the property tax deduction for senior citizens. | |
BI | Question 3 | Bond issues | Allows for $80 million in bonds for acquiring land for recreational and conservational purposes. |
New York
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Type | Title | Subject | Description | Result |
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BI | Proposition 1 | Bonds and Transportation | Allows for $2.5 billion in debt for transportation | |
LRCA | Proposed Amendment No. 1 | Gov't Finances | Relates to the constitutional debt limit of counties, towns and villages | |
LRCA | Proposed Amendment No. 2 | Utilities | Excludes indebtedness for sewage facilities |
North Dakota
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September 23
Type | Title | Subject | Description | Result |
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VR | Measure 1 | Gov't Finance | Appropriates $807,580 for the expenses to operate the Department of Accounts and Purchases |
Ohio
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November 2, 1971
Type | Title | Description | Result | Yes Votes | No Votes |
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Publication of Ballot Measures in Newspapers | Authorize the state to publish copies of ballot measures in newspapers, rather than sending copies to voters |
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1,645,961 (65%) |
900,549 (35%) |
Oklahoma
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December 7
Type | Title | Subject | Description | Result |
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LRCA | State Question 479 | Elections | Removes the requirement that voters be property taxpayers | |
LRCA | State Question 481 | Gov't Finances | Authorizes the investment of school funds in promissory notes evidencing insured loans | |
LRCA | State Question 482 | Law enforcement | Provides immunity from prosecution for testimony or evidence | |
LRCA | State Question 483 | Judiciary | Provides for composition of grand juries and investigation of multi-county crimes | |
LRCA | State Question 484 | Suffrage | Reduces the voting age to 18 years of age |
Pennsylvania
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May 18:
Type | Title | Subject | Description | Result |
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LRCA | Question 1 | Trials | Requires a five-sixths jury in civil cases | |
LRCA | Question 2 | Constitutional Rights | Adds constitutional language for equal rights regardless of sex | |
LRCA | Question 3 | Environment | Adds environmental rights to the state constitution | |
LRCA | Question 4 | Salaries | Allows a county officer's salary or emoluments to be increased or decreased during the officer's term if a change in county classification requires it | |
LRCA | Question 5 | Legislature | Allows a legislator to resign to take a civil office if the office wasn't created during the legislator's term or the position's emoluments weren't increased during the legislator's term |
Texas
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May 18
Type | Title | Subject | Description | Result |
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LRCA | Proposition 1 | Admin of gov't | Establishes a commission to set rules of ethics for legislators, state officers and employees of the legislature | |
LRCA | Proposition 2 | Legislature | Provides that the legislature may propose an amendment of the Constitution at any session of the Legislature | |
LRCA | Proposition 3 | Gov't finances | Removes the limitation on the total State appropriations for assistance grants for the needy | |
LRCA | Proposition 4 | Bonds | Authorizes the issuance of $100 million in bonds to provide financial assistance to municipalities for water quality enhancement purposes |
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