Section 1. Persons not to be disfranchised
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Rights, privileges and franchise secured; power of legislature to dispense with primary elections in certain cases
No member of this state shall be disfranchised, or deprived of any of the rights or privileges secured to any citizen thereof, unless by the law of the land, or the judgment of his or her peers, except that the legislature may provide that there shall be no primary election held to nominate candidate for public office or to elect persons to party positions for any political party or parties in any unit of representation of the state from which such candidates or persons are nominated or elected whenever there is no contest or contests for such nominations or election as may be prescribed by general law.
Persons not to be disfranchised
No member of this State shall be disfranchised, or deprived of any of the rights or privileges secured to any citizen thereof, unless by the law of the land, or the judgment of his peers, except that the legislature may provide that there shall be no primary election held to nominate candidate for public office or to elect persons to party positions for any political party or parties in any unit of representation of the state from which such candidates or persons are nominated or elected whenever there is no contest or contests for such nominations or election as may be prescribed by general law.
And this convention doth further, in the name, and by the authority of the good people of this state, ORDAIN, DETERMINE AND DECLARE, That no member of this state shall be disfranchised, or deprived of any the rights or privileges secured to the subjects of this state, by this constitution, unless by the law of the land, or the judgment of his peers.