Ballot Questions
1931
Question #1
State Constitutional Amendment
NYS were asked if they wanted to pass an amendment to the NYS constitution,
to change II.4, III.4, III.5 - to use federal census, rather than state census, for drawing state districts
as proposed by the NYS Legislature
And the voters said: Yes!
How We Voted
YES |
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73.38% |
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924,228 New Yorkers voted Yes |
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NO |
26.62% |
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335,206 New Yorkers voted No |
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1,259,434 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.4 proposed for 1932
Article II: Suffrage • Section 4: Laws to be passed.
Laws shall be made for ascertaining, by proper proofs, the citizens who shall be entitled to the right of suffrage hereby established, and for the registration of voters; which registration shall be completed at least ten days before each election. Such registration shall not be required for town and village elections except by express provision of law. In cities and…
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Article III: Legislature • Section 4: Census to be taken in 1905, and every ten years — Senate districts, how altered.
Except as herein otherwise provided, the federal census taken in the year nineteen hundred thirty and each federal census taken decennially thereafter shall be controlling as to the number of inhabitants in the state or any part thereof for the purposes of the apportionment of members of assembly and readjustment or alteration of senate and assembly districts next occurring, in…
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Article III: Legislature • Section 5: Members of Assembly, number of, and how apportioned and chosen — Boards of supervisors in certain counties and board of aldermen in New York city to divide the same into Assembly districts — Description of Assembly districts to be filed — Contents of Assembly districts — Legislature to reapportion members of Assembly — Each county entitled to one member — Hamilton county — Counties and towns may be divided and new ones erected.
The members of the assembly shall be chosen by single districts, and shall be apportioned by the legislature at each regular session at which the senate districts are readjusted or altered, and by the same law, among the several counties of the state, as nearly as may be according to the number of their respective inhabitants, excluding aliens. Every county…
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