1970 Florida Amendment 1

On November 3, 1970, Florida held a ballot initiative in the form of a legislatively-referred constitutional amendment about lowering the voting age to 18 years old in Florida. This measure failed to pass. As part of the amendment one had to live in Florida for a year and live in their said county for 6 months to be able to vote. It was one of many ballot measures that year pertaining to lowering the voting age prior to the 26th Amendment of the United States Constitution passing in July 1971 setting the voting age to 18 years old nationally. The amendment failed in most counties.