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With 65.26% of the votes counted across the state, Amendment 1 has passed with a 61.4% approval rate. The Associated Press called the results of the ballot measure just before 9 p.m., Tuesday night.
Kentucky Constitutional Amendment 1 [3] of 2004, is an amendment to the Kentucky Constitution that made it unconstitutional for the state to recognize or perform same-sex marriages or civil unions. The referendum was approved by 75% of the voters. [4]
In 2004, Kentucky became the fourth state to send a constitutional amendment banning same-sex unions to the state's voters. [5] On Election Day of that year, Kentucky joined 10 other states in passing such an amendment, [6] with voters passing it by a 3-to-1 margin. [7] The text of the amendment reads:
Stone v. Graham, 449 U.S. 39 (1980), was a court case in which the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that a Kentucky statute was unconstitutional and in violation of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, because it lacked a nonreligious, legislative purpose.
Amendment 1 is a proposed change to our State Constitution that does not change how it is currently interpreted and enacted but will likely create barriers to voting for many of our neighbors.
Amendment 1 asks voters to consider revising the state constitution to ban noncitizens from voting in Kentucky elections. The ballot measure is part of a national trend, with voters in eight ...
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Constitutional Amendment 1 proposes to ban noncitizen voting, something that is already prohibited under the Kentucky Constitution. Our electoral system already enforces this with strict penalties ...