AN ACT proposing an amendment to Section 145 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to persons entitled to vote.

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AN ACT proposing an amendment to Section 145 of the Constitution of Kentucky 1
relating to persons entitled to vote. 2
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: 3
Section 1. Are you in favor of amending Section 145 of the Constitution of 4
Kentucky to prohibit persons adjudged mentally incompetent by a court from voting as 5
stated below? 6
Section 2. It is proposed that Section 145 of the Con stitution of Kentucky be 7
amended to read as follows: 8
Every citizen of the United States of the age of eighteen years who has resided in 9
the state one year, and in the county six months, and the precinct in which he or she 10
offers to vote sixty days next pr eceding the election, shall be a voter in said precinct and 11
not elsewhere. No person who is not a citizen of the United States shall be allowed to 12
vote in this state. The following persons also shall not have the right to vote: 13
1. Persons convicted in any court of competent jurisdiction of treason, or felony, 14
or bribery in an election, or of such high misdemeanor as the General Assembly may 15
declare shall operate as an exclusion from the right of suffrage, but persons hereby 16
excluded may be restored to their civil rights by executive pardon. 17
2. Persons who, at the time of the election, are in confinement under the 18
judgment of a court for some penal offense. 19
3. Persons determined by a court of competent jurisdiction to be mentally 20
incompetent to vote, when that judicial determination has not been set aside [Idiots and 21
insane persons]. 22
Section 3. This amendment shall be submitted to the voters of the 23
Commonwealth for their ratification or rejection at the time and in the manner provided 24
for under Sections 256 and 257 of the Constitution, KRS 118.415, and Sections 4 and 5 25
of this Act. 26
Section 4. Notwithstanding any provision of KRS 118.415 to the contrary, the 27
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Secretary of State shall cause the entirety of the question in Section 1 of this Act and the 1
entirety of the proposed amendment to the Constitution of Kentucky contained in Section 2
2 of this Act to be published at least one time in a newspaper of general circulation 3
published in this state, and shall also cause to be published at the same time and in the 4
same manner the fact that the amendment will be submitted to the voters for their 5
acceptance or rejection at the next regular election at which members of the General 6
Assembly are to be voted for. The publication required by this section and KRS 118.415 7
shall be made no later than the first Tuesday in August preceding the election at which 8
the amendment is to be voted on. 9
Section 5. Notwithstanding any provision of KRS 118.415 to the contrary, the 10
Secretary of State, not later than the second Monday after the second Tuesday in August 11
preceding the next regula r election at which members of the General Assembly are to be 12
chosen in a year in which there is not an election for President and Vice President of the 13
United States, or not later than the Thursday after the first Tuesday in September 14
preceding a regular election in a year in which there is an election for President and Vice 15
President of the United States, shall certify the entirety of the question in Section 1 of this 16
Act and the entirety of the proposed amendment to the Constitution of Kentucky 17
contained in Section 2 of this Act to the county clerk of each county, and the county clerk 18
shall have the entirety of the question and the amendment, as so certified, indicated on 19
the ballots provided to the voters in paper or electronic form as applicable to the voting 20
machines in use in each county or precinct. 21