The Wisconsin Public Inland Lake Protection and Rehabilitation Districts Voting Rights was a Wisconsin referendum / legislatively-referred state statute on the November 4, 1980 ballot in Wisconsin, where it was approved.
- This referendum sought the people's approval to allow non-resident property owners in public inland lake protection and rehabilitation districts to vote at district meetings.[1]
Election results
| Voting in Public Inland Lake Protection and Rehabilitation Districts |
|---|
| Result | Votes | Percentage |
 a Yes | 1,210,452 | 77.32% |
| No | 355,024 | 22.68% |
Official results via: The Wisconsin Blue Book 1981-1982
Text of measure
The language that appeared on the ballot:
Shall state law be amended to permit persons who own property in a public inland lake protection and rehabilitation district and who are U.S. citizens and are 18 years of age or older to vote at meeting of the district?[1]
Path to the ballot
- The referendum was placed on the ballot under Ch.299 of 1979[2]
- Public Inland Lake Protection and Rehabilitation Districts were first established in 1974 to help with environmental protection. In 1979 a tax levied to buy a weed harvester in the Paddock Lake district in Kenosha County led to a court ruling that the existing legal language excluded non-residents from voting on such matters. Proponents of the law argued that if non-residents property owners were excluded from such decision making, efforts to improve the lakes in the districts would be hampered.[3]
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