A PROPOSITION

No. 42.

Relative to Suffrage and Elections.

Introduced by Mr. Orme of Maricopa.

It is hereby proposed:

Section 1. Every citizen of the United States of the age of twenty-one years and upwards, who has resided in this State one year and in the county wherein such residence is located sixty days and precinct ten days next preceding any election shall be entitled to vote at such election except as hereinotherwise provided.

Sec. 2. Electors shall in all cases except treason, felony or breach of peace be privileged from arrest on the days of election during their attendance at elections and going to and returning therefrom.

Sec. 3. No elector shall be obliged to perform militia duty on the day of election except in time of war or public danger.

Sec. 4. No person shall be deemed a qualified elector of this State unless such person be a citizen of the United States.

Sec. 5. All idiots, insane persons, and persons convicted of infamous crime unless restored to civil rights are excluded from the elective franchise.

Sec. 6. No elector shall be deemed to have lost his residence in the State by reason of his absence on business of the United States or of this State or in the military or naval service of the United States.

Sec. 7. No solder, seaman or marine of the army or navy of the United States shall be deemed a resident of this State in consequence of his being stationed therein.

Sec. 8. No person shall have the right to vote who shall not be able to read a Constitution of this State.

Sec. 9. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to deprive any person of the right to vote who has such right at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, unless disqualified by restriction of Sec. 5 of this Article.

Sec. 10. All elections shall be by ballot. The legislature shall provide by law that the names of all candidates for the same office to be voted for at any election shall be printed on the same ballot at public expense. No ballot shall contain any party emblem. And on election day the ballot shall be delivered to the voters within the polling place by a sworn public official and only such ballot so delivered shall be received and counted. All voters shall be guaranteed absolute privacy in the preparation of their ballots and the secrecy of the ballot shall be made compulsory.

Sec. 11. No person qualified to be an elector of the State of Arizona shall be allowed to vote at any general or special election hereafter to be holden in the State until he shall have registered as a voter according to law at least sixty days prior to such election. The legislature of the State shall enact such laws will carry into effect the provisions of this section which enactment shall be subject to amendment but shall never be repealed; but this section shall not apply to the first election held under the Enabling Act.

Sec. 12. The legislature shall pass laws to secure the purity of election and guard against the abuse of the elective franchise.

Sec. 13. The legislature shall by general law designate the courts by which several classes of election contests not otherwise provided for shall be tried and regulate the manner of trial and all matters incident thereto but no such law shall apply to any such contest arising out of election held before its passage.

Sec. 14. No person except a qualified elector shall be elected or appointed to any civil or military office in the state.

Sec. 15. Every person holding any civil office under the State or municipality therein shall, unless removed according to law, exercise the duties of such office until his successor is duly qualified but this shall not apply to members of the legislature nor to the members of any board assembly two or more of whom are elected at the same time. Legislature may by law provide for suspending any officer in his functions pending impeachment or prosecution for misconduct in office.

QUALIFICATION FOR OFFICE

Sec. 16. All general elections for State and county offices for members of the House of Representatives and the Senate of the State of Arizona, and representatives to the Congress of the United States, shall be held on Tuesday next following the first Monday in November of each even year. Special elections may be held as now or may thereafter be provided by law. All state and county officers elected at a general election shall enter upon their respective duties upon the first day of January following the date of their election or as soon thereafter as may be possible.

Sec. 17. All officers whose election is not provided for in this Constitution shall be elected or appointed as may be directed for by law.

Sec. 18. No member of Congress from this State or any person holding or exercising any office or appointment of trust or profit under the United States shall at the same time hold or exercise any office in this State to which a salary, fees or perquisites shall be attached. The legislature may by law declare what offices are incompatible.

• Proposition Number 42 - Suffrage and Elections (introduced on 1910-10-18 14:00:00 - CREATE - e934310) [This document] [view current proposal at this moment]
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