Ballot Questions
1947
Question #2
State Constitutional Amendment
NYS were asked if they wanted to pass an amendment to the NYS constitution,
to change II.2
as proposed by the NYS Legislature
And the voters said: Yes!
How We Voted
YES |
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76.34% |
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1,848,701 New Yorkers voted Yes |
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NO |
23.66% |
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573,050 New Yorkers voted No |
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2,421,751 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.2 proposed for 1948
Article II: Suffrage
The legislature may, by general law, provide a manner in which, and the time and place at which, qualified voters who may, on the occurrence of any election, be unavoidably absent from the place of their residence because they are inmates of a soldiers’ and sailors’ home or of a United States veterans’ bureau hospital, or because their duties, occupation…
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