Ballot Questions
1874
Question #1
State Constitutional Amendment
NYS were asked if they wanted to pass an amendment to the NYS constitution,
to change II.1, II.2 - to extend the right to vote to men of color, and strip right to vote from those violating voting ethics
as proposed by the NYS Legislature, based on a state commission's recommendation
And the voters said: Yes!
How We Voted
YES |
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66.89% |
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357,635 New Yorkers voted Yes |
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NO |
33.11% |
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177,033 New Yorkers voted No |
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534,668 votes determined the outcome of this ballot question.
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Note: When voters approved of provisions, the new changes take effect on January 1st of the year after the question's appearance on the ballot
II.1 proposed for 1875
• Section 1: Qualifications 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 and for the last thirty days a resident of the election district in which he may offer his vote,…
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• Section 2: Bribery at elections.
No person who shall receive, expect or offer to receive, or pay, offer or promise to pay, contribute, offer or promise to contribute to another, to be paid or used, any money or other valuable thing as a compensation or reward for the giving orwithholding a vote at an election, or who shall make any promise to influence the giving…
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