Guarantees Mentally Handicapped Voting Rights, Unless Adjudicated Incompetent to Vote

Authors

City Club of Portland (Portland, Or.)

Publication Date

10-30-1980

Document Type

Report

Subjects

Voting, Urban policy -- Oregon -- Portland -- Periodicals, Portland (Or.) -- Politics and government -- Periodicals, Portland (Or.) -- Social conditions -- Periodicals

Notes

Purpose: "Measure proposes constitutional amendment to eliminate present language which prohibits voting by any 'idiot or mentally diseased person,' changing it to guarantee full voting rights to mentally handicapped persons, unless they have been declared in the manner provided by law to be incompetent to vote."

Persistent Identifier

http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/15249

Recommended Citation

City Club of Portland (Portland, Or.), "Guarantees Mentally Handicapped Voting Rights, Unless Adjudicated Incompetent to Vote" (1980). City Club of Portland. 546.
http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/15249