Constitution Ballot Questions Virginians will be voting on five statewide ballot questions on Nov. 3. Attention has been focused on two of them, Amendments 3 and 4, which are designed to make it easier for cities and counties to cooperate in joint ventures such as industrial parks and regional recreation areas. You can read the text of the five questions below.

THE BASICS

Question 1: Shall the Constitution of Virginia be amended to permit persons employed overseas, and their families, who are qualified to vote in Virginia except for having given up a home in Virginia, to continue to vote in Virginia while overseas subject to the conditions and time limits set by law?
Vote Yes/No.

Question 2: Shall the Constitution of Virginia be amended to delete the present requirement that the proceedings of the Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission concerning charges against judges shall be confidential so that the General Assembly can provide by law to what extent Commission proceedings and documents will be confidential?
Vote Yes/No.

Question 3: Shall the Constitution of Virginia be amended to authorize agreements among localities for sharing the revenues and costs of a specified land area and establishing a special government body for the area, and to provide that fiscal commitments related to the land area will not be deemed local debt?
Vote Yes/No.

Question 4: Shall the Constitution of Virginia be amended to allow a combination of localities to contract debt as part of an agreement to share the revenues, tax base, or the benefits of economic growth and exempt this class of debt from the ceiling on local debt for cities and towns and from the requirement for a local referendum for counties?
Vote Yes/No.

Question 5: Shall the Constitution of Virginia be amended to authorize the General Assembly by general law to give local governments the option of eliminating, in whole or part, either the business, professional or occupational license tax or the merchants' capital tax or both? Vote Yes/No.