STATEWIDE REFERENDA ELECTIONS OTHER THAN CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS-Cont.


                                                                        
                                                               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 ......................................................................
 .         ..       ....o446,763                    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 .................................................................................
                   ....i658,289                    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.


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                                                         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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