Ballot Questions
2014
Question #1
State Constitutional Amendment
NYS were asked if they wanted to pass an amendment to the NYS constitution,
to change III.4, III.5, III.5-b
as proposed by the NYS Legislature
And the voters said: Yes!
How We Voted
YES |
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57.67% |
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1,705,903 New Yorkers voted Yes |
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NO |
42.33% |
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1,252,213 New Yorkers voted No |
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2,958,116 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
III.4 proposed for 2015
Article III: Legislature • Section 4: Readjustments and reapportionments; when federal census to control
(a) 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,…
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Article III: Legislature • Section 5: Apportionment of assemblymen; creation of assembly districts
The members of the assembly shall be chosen by single districts and shall be apportioned pursuant to this section and sections four and five-b of this article 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…
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Article III: Legislature • Section 5-b: Independent redistricting commission
(a) On or before February first of each year ending with a zero and at any other time a court orders that congressional or state legislative districts be amended, an independent redistricting commission shall be established to determine the district lines for congressional and state legislative offices. The independent redistricting commission shall be composed of ten members, appointed as follows:…
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