Public Question #4 The following Public Question will appear on the November 6, 2007 General Election Ballot
	CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT CONCERNING THE
	RIGHT TO VOTE FOR CERTAIN PERSONS
	Shall the amendment of Article II, Section I, paragraph 6 of the Constitution, agreed to by the Legislature, revising the
YES	current constitutional language concerning denial of the right to vote by deleting the phrase “idiot or insane person” and providing instead that a “person who has been adjudicated by a court of competent jurisdiction to lack the capacity to understand the act of voting” shall not enjoy the right of suffrage, be adopted?
	INTERPRETIVE STATEMENT
	Approval of this amendment concerning the denial of the right to vote would delete the phrase “idiot or insane person” and replace that phrase with “person who has been adjudicated by a court of competent jurisdiction to lack the capacity to understand the act of voting” in describing those persons who shall be denied the right to vote. The phrase
	“idiot or insane person” is outdated, vague, offensive to many, and may be subject to misinterpretation. This
NO	constitutional amendment acknowledges that individuals with cognitive or emotional disabilities may otherwise be capable of making decisions in the voting booth and that their right of self-determination should be respected and protected in this regard. The amendment only denies the right of suffrage to those individuals determined by a court, on a case-by-case basis, to lack the capacity to understand the act of voting.
Anne Milgram, Attorney General