Ballot Questions
1915
Question #1
State Constitutional Amendment
NYS were asked if they wanted to pass an amendment to the NYS constitution,
to change II.1.leg - to extend the right to vote to women
as proposed by the most recent NYS Constitutional Convention
And the voters said: No!
How We Voted
YES |
42.51% |
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553,358 New Yorkers voted Yes |
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NO |
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57.49% |
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748,332 New Yorkers voted No |
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1,301,690 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.legislative proposed for 1916
Article II: Elective franchise • Section 1.legislative: Qualification of voters.
Every citizen of the age of twenty-one years, who shall have been a citizen for ninety 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 or she may offer his…
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