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
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
Included in
Public Administration Commons, Public Policy Commons, Urban Studies and Planning Commons
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."