Ballot Questions
1923
Question #5
State Constitutional Amendment
NYS were asked if they wanted to pass an amendment to the NYS constitution,
to change II.1.a - to extend absentee voting to veterans in soldiers' and sailors' homes
as proposed by the NYS Legislature
And the voters said: Yes!
How We Voted
YES |
|
70.64% |
1,019,077 New Yorkers voted Yes |
NO |
29.36% |
|
423,497 New Yorkers voted No |
1,442,574 votes determined the outcome of this ballot question.
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II.1.a proposed for 1924
Article II: Suffrage • Section 1.a: Absentee voting.
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 general election be unavoidably absent from the state or county of their residence because they are inmates of a soldiers’ and sailors’ home, or because their duties occupation or business require them to…
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