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Three Amendments
Face Voters Npv. 6th
Campaign speeches, news releases, advertistments and general handshaking and even a little baby kissing hav? constantly kept the candidates in the Congressional campaigns for election on November 6 before the voters,
For further consideration by Virginia voters at that time will be three amendments which have received very little attention as yet. The first proposed amendment would do away with an existing voting restriction that is referred to, as the “blank sheet” registration form, originally devised to keep Negroes from voting, and instead provide a form for registering. The second amendment is designed to allow the General Assembly to legislate without the necessary majority of members present in case of nuclear attack. The third proposed amendment would empower the General Assembly to require every person voting in a bond referendum to be a freeholder and it says the Assembly shall decide the definition of a freeholder.
The third amendment has received strong opposition in Northern Virginia around the Arlington area where one half the voters are apartment dwellers and would be banned from voting in bond elections.
In its 1962 session, the Assembly passed a resolution defining a freeholder aa (anyone owning land with an. assessed valuation of $100.00 or more in the locality where the bonds would be issued, but the definition could be subject to change.
Those in favor see this as a device to keep transients and . persons without land-holding roots from imposing mortgages on the property of other?-and they further argue that persons who do not pay direct property taxes shptnty not be able to vote a commimitf'tnto debt. I _ OwwfieWfrtiiaiiiiiii that the ■ »>^Treeh>*JiiwP",WWtept is undemocratic and treats some persons as second-class citizens on financial matters, and that the now freeholders establish roots in the community through schools and other local programs and pay property taxes through rents. They further maintain that having separate voting lists for Bond issues would lead to grand confusion at the polls and would necessitate keeping real estate tabulation up to the minute.
In Arlington, a similar freeholder proposal was approved in a referendum in 1956 but later was thrown out by the courts.
The practice of only freeholders voting goes back to the early days of our country when
landowner could vote in as many districts as he owned property and often voted 3 or more times.
Copies of the ballots are reprinted on page 6. j
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