Ballot Questions
1917
Question #1
State Constitutional Amendment
NYS were asked if they wanted to pass an amendment to the NYS constitution,
to change II.1 - to extend the right to vote to women
as proposed by the NYS Legislature
And the voters said: Yes!
How We Voted
YES |
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53.92% |
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703,129 New Yorkers voted Yes |
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NO |
46.08% |
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600,776 New Yorkers voted No |
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1,303,905 votes determined the outcome of this ballot question.
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II.1 proposed for 1918
Article II: Suffrage • Section 1: 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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