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THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Koss.
DELEGATE KOSS: It seems to me that
if a constitutional provision says no mu-
nicipal corporation may establish a voting
age of more than nineteen, if you were as-
suring me that the General Assembly can
at that point say that they cannot also es-
tablish at least 18 —
DELEGATE GULLETT: That is the
intent.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Bamberger.
DELEGATE BAMBERGER: I think we
ought to clear that up. As I understand
Delegate Gullett's amendment, the General
Assembly can establish procedures and
standards. I would take the next sentence,
however, to mean it gives the municipal
corporation the sole prerogative to estab-
lish the voting requirement of less than
nineteen years and gives the municipal
corporation the sole right to establish the
residence requirement of more than one
year.
Are you suggesting that the power of the
General Assembly reaches the voting age
and residency requirement so that it is
a concurrent power with a municipal
corporation?
THE CHAIRMAN: I think you inad-
vertently misstated the last part of the last
sentence. I think you said that the effect
of the last sentence was that a municipal
corporation had the exclusive right to es-
tablish a residence requirement of more
than one year.
I think you mean less than a year?
DELEGATE BAMBERGER: That is
correct.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Gullett.
DELEGATE GULLETT: They possibly
could. We are dealing strictly with qualifi-
cations. The first sentence is the same. The
qualifications of voters for municipal elec-
tions are what is going to be established
by law.
If they want to set a standard regarding
the voting age of eighteen, restricting that,
I would think that they could.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Bamberger.
Let me say this, sir, to make it perfectly
clear. What Delegate Gullett is saying is,
that as he understands it, the authority of
the General Assembly to establish pro-
cedures and standards by public general
law would embrace the establishment of
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limitations on both voting age and resi-
dency requirements. Delegate Cardin.
DELEGATE CARDIN: Am I correct
that we are speaking to both amendments
basically at the same time?
THE CHAIRMAN: Yes.
DELEGATE CARDIN: I should like to
say that it would be impossible for me not
to voice my objection to the voting age re-
quirement as established in Delegate Gul-
lett's amendment, having fought so hard to
obtain a modicum of responsibility on those
who vote. I should hate to see it go down
to sixteen. I would suggest that those of
you who oppose that should vote for Dele-
gate Bamberger's amendment.
THE CHAIRMAN: Are you ready for
the question?
(Call for the question.)
THE CHAIRMAN: The Clerk will ring
the quorum bell.
The question arises on the adoption of
Amendment No. 8-A to Amendment No. 8
to Committee Recommendation S&E-2. We
will first vote on the amendment to the
amendment, following which you will vote
on the amendment, either as amended or in
its present form.
The question now arises on the adoption
of Amendment 8-A, which is to strike in
lines 10 and 11 of Amendment No. 8 the
words "of more than nineteen years" and
substitute the words "different from the
voting age for state elections."
A vote Aye is a vote in favor of Amend-
ment No. 8-A to Amendment No. 8, in
other words, a vote in favor of the substi-
tution of that language. A vote No is a
vote against.
Cast your votes.
Has every delegate voted? Does any dele-
gate desire to change his vote?
(There was no response.)
The Clerk will record the vote.
There being 46 votes in the affirmative
and 78 in the negative, the motion is lost.
The amendment to the amendment is re-
jected. The question now arises on the
adoption of Amendment No. 8 in the form
submitted.
Are you ready for the question?
(Call for the question.)
The question arises on the adoption of
Amendment No. 8 to Committee Recom-
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