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STATEWIDE REFERENDA ELECTIONS OTHER THAN CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS--Cont.
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                                                                   Date of
          Vote
                                                   Question             
                                           Law Submitting          Election
    For      Against
 4-year term for constitutional officers; advisory referendum .................................................
SJR11 JR13  1951  Apr. 1951  210,821  328,613
 Apportionment of legislature by area and population; advisory referendum.....................................
 Ch.728  1951     Nov. 1952   689,615   753,092
 *New residents entitled to vote for president and vice president...............................................
 Ch.76  1953     Nov. 1954  550,056    414,680
 State-wide educational television tax-supported; advisory referendum.........................................AJR74
  JR66  1953  Nov. 1954   308,385   697,262
 *Daylight saving  time.................................................................................
     Ch.6      1957      Apr. 1957  578,661    480,656
 *Ex-residents entitled to vote for president and vice president................................................
 Ch.512  1961   Nov. 1962   627,279   229,375
 Gasoline tax increase for highway construction ...........................................................
AJR3  JR3  SS'63     Apr. 1964   150,769   889,364
 *New residents entitled  to vote after 6 months.............................................................
 Chs.88,89  1965   Nov. 1966  582,389    256,246
 State control and funding of vocational education.........................................................AJR12
 JR4  1969      Apr. 1969   292,560   409,789
 *Recreational lands bonding ...........................................................................
AJR17  JR5     1969      Apr. 1969  361,630    322,882
 *Water pollution abatement bonding ....................................................................
.              ......V446,763                             246,968
 *New residents entitled  to vote after 10 days..............................................................
 Ch.85   1975     Nov. 1976  1,017,887   660,875
 *Presidential voting  revised............................................................................
   Ch.394   1977      Nov. 1978   782,181   424,386
 *Overseas voting revised ...................................................................................P658,289
                                             524,029
 *Public inland lake protection and rehabilitation districts....................................................
 Ch.299  1979    Nov. 1980  1,210,452  355,024
 *Nuclear weapons moratorium and reduction; advisory referendum............................................AJR99
 JR38  1981     Sept. 1982  641,514    205,018
 Nuclear waste site locating; advisory referendum .........................................................IAJR5
 JR5  1983      Apr. 1983   78,327    628,414

 *Ratified.
 'In Gillespie v. Palmer, 20 Wis. (1866) 544, the Supreme Court ruled that
Ch. 137, 1849, extending suffrage to colored persons, was ratified November
6, 1849.
 2Presidential suffrage for women, granted by Ch.5, 1919, was not ordered
submitted to the people.
Source: Official records of the Elections Board; Acts of Wisconsin, 1985
and previous volumes.


                                                          SUMMARY - STATEWIDE
REFERENDA ELECTIONS
    Excluding measures involving amendments to the state constitution, statewide
referenda are submitted to the electorate by the Wisconsin Legislature for
the following purposes: 1) to
ratify a law extending the right of suffrage, a constitutional requirement;
2) to make the effectiveness of a law contingent on ratification; and 3)
to seek the opinion of the electorate through an
advisory referendum.
    Since the establishment of statehood in 1848, the Wisconsin Legislature
has sent 47 questions to the Wisconsin electorate in referendum form through
the passage of 44 acts or joint
resolutions.Of these 47 questions, the electorate has approved 31.
    During territorial times, the territorial legislature sent 4 questions
to the electorate.Of these 4 questions, 2 were passed: to allow for the formation
of a state government and the
ratification of the state constitution.


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