Ballot Questions
1927
Question #6
State Constitutional Amendment
NYS were asked if they wanted to pass an amendment to the NYS constitution,
to change III.2, IV.1, XIV.1 - to increase the terms of legislators, the governor, and the lieutenant governor, and to clarify election years
as proposed by the NYS Legislature
And the voters said: No!
How We Voted
YES |
31.55% |
|
578,863 New Yorkers voted Yes |
NO |
|
68.45% |
1,256,157 New Yorkers voted No |
1,835,020 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.2 proposed for 1928
Article III: Legislature • Section 2: Senate, number of — Assembly, number of.
The senate shall consist of fifty members, except as hereinafter provided. The senators elected in the year one thousand nine hundred and twenty-six shall hold their offices for two years, and their successors shall be chosen for four years. The assembly shall consist of one hundred and fifty members. The members of assembly elected in the year one thousand nine…
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Article IV: Executive • Section 1: Executive power, how vested.
The executive power shall be vested in a governor, who shall hold his office for four years; a lieutenant-governor shall be chosen at the same time, and for the same term. The governor and lieutenant-governor elected next preceding the time when this section, hereby amended, shall take effect shall hold office until and including the thirty-first day of December, one…
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Article XIV: Amendments and Conventions • Section 1: Amendments.
Any amendment or amendments to this constitution may be proposed in the senate and assembly; and if the same shall be agreed to by a majority of the members elected to each of the two houses, such proposed amendment or amendments shall be entered on their journals, and the yeas and nays taken thereon, and referred to the legislature whose…
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