Ballot Questions
1869
Question #4
State Constitutional Amendment
NYS were asked if they wanted to pass an amendment to the NYS constitution,
to re-up II.1 - to require that black men must own property in order to vote
as proposed by the most recent NYS Constitutional Convention
And the voters said: Yes!
How We Voted
YES |
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53.06% |
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282,403 New Yorkers voted Yes |
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NO |
46.94% |
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249,802 New Yorkers voted No |
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532,205 votes determined the outcome of this ballot question.
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II.1 proposed for 1870
• Section 1: Qualification of voters.
Every male citizen of the age of twenty-one years, who shall have been a citizen for ten days, and an inhabitant of this state one year next preceding an election, and for the last four months a resident of the county where he may offer his vote, shall be entitled to vote at such election, in the election district of…
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