Provisions
II.6 of 1939 • Permanent registration.
APPROVED
The Text
The legislature may provide by law for a system or systems of registration whereby upon personal application a voter may be registered and his registration continued so long as he shall remain qualified to vote from the same address, or for such shorter period as the legislature may prescribe within the jurisdiction of the board with which such voter is registered.
A Few Facts
• Joined the Constitution in 1939
• In Article II: Suffrage
• Has 61 words
• Was proposed by the Constitutional Convention
• Went to NYS voters as proposed amendment 1 of 1938
• Is a new addition
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