The bill to amend the constitution was passed by the House of Representatives however it was rejected by the Senate.

The proposal would have meant that their votes counted towards the national majority, but not towards any state total.

Proposed law entitled "An Act to facilitate alterations to the Constitution and to allow electors in territories, as well as electors in the states, to vote at referendums on proposed laws to alter the Constitution".

The proposal was to alter the constitution as follows (removed text stricken through; substituted text in bold):[1] This referendum attempted to alter the way in which the results of referendum questions would be tallied.

Prior to this referendum, there were three referendum questions in which a majority of voters nationwide and the majority of voters in fewer than four states voted 'yes', which resulted in rejection of these questions.