Provisions
IV.3 proposed for 1916 • Time and manner of electing Governor and Lieutenant-Governor.
REJECTED
The Text
The governor and lieutenant-governor shall be elected at the times and places of choosing members of the assembly. The persons respectively having the highest number of votes for governor and lieutenant-governor shall be elected; but in case two or more shall have an equal and the highest number of votes for governor, or for lieutenant-governor, the two houses of the legislature at its next annual session shall forthwith, by joint ballot, choose one of such persons so having an equal and the highest number of votes for governor or lieutenant-governor.
A Few Facts
• Has 90 words
• Was proposed by the Constitutional Convention
• Went to NYS voters as proposed amendment 4 of 1915
If New Yorkers voted to approve this provision, it would have:
• Joined the Constitution in 1916
• Been in Article IV: Executive
• Re-upped the text of a previously existing provision
• Amended or built on:
◦ 1895-IV.3
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