Colorado voters voted to abolish an amendment in their state’s constitution that still listed slavery and forced servitude as punishment for a crime on Tuesday. The vote comes more than 150 years after the U.S. Constitution ratified the 13th Amendment.
Only 65 percent of Colorado residents voted in support of Amendment A, which changes Article II, Section 26 of Colorado’s Constitution. The article currently reads: “Slavery prohibited. There shall never be in this state either slavery or involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted.â€
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The updated transcription will shorten the second sentence to say, “There shall never be in this state either slavery or involuntary servitude.”
Amendment A only needed 55 percent of the votes to pass.
One has to wonder, however, what were the remaining 35 percent of voters were thinking.
