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Provisions

II.1 proposed for 1870 • Qualification of voters.

REJECTED

The Text

Every male inhabitant, of the age of twenty-one years, who shall have been a citizen for ten days, and a resident of the State for one year next preceding an election, and for the last four months a resident of the county where he may offer his vote, shall be entitled to vote at such election, in the election district of which he shall be at the time a resident, and not elsewhere, for all officers that now are, or hereafter may be elective by the people, and upon all questions which may be submitted to the vote of the people of the State ; provided that such citizen shall have been for thirty days next preceding the election a resident of the town or ward, and for ten days of the election district in which he offers his vote.


A Few Facts

• Has 140 words

• Was proposed by the Constitutional Convention

• Went to NYS voters as proposed amendment 1 of 1869

If New Yorkers voted to approve this provision, it would have:

• Joined the Constitution in 1870

• Been in Article II:

• Changed the text of a previously existing provision

• Amended or built on:
1864-II.1


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