Proposition Summary

Senate Constitutional Amendment 1. Adds section 7 to Article II of Constitution. Authorizes Legislature to provide for registration of electors. Confirms and ratifies act entitled “An act to amends section 1083(a), 1094, 1095(a), 1097, 1103, 1105, 1196, 1115, 1120 and to repeal sections 1228 and 1229 of the Political Code, relating to registration of electors and conduct of elections,” approved by electors November 4, 1920, as amended; declaring same may be amended, revised, supplemented or repealed by Legislature.

Proposition Number

8

Year

1936

Document Type

Proposition

Pass/Fail

Fail

Popular Vote Results

Y: 471478; A: 28.3; N: 1193690; B: 71.7

Election Type

General Election

Proposition Type

Senate Constitutional Amendment

For Author

Will R. Sharkey, Senator, Seventeenth District; Ralph E. Swing, Senator, Thirty-sixth District

Against Author

Wm. M. Kerr, Registrar of Voters, Los Angeles; J. H. Zemansky, Former Registrar of Voters, San Francisco

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