Ballot Questions
1874
Question #2
State Constitutional Amendment
NYS were asked if they wanted to pass an amendment to the NYS constitution,
to change III.5, III.6, III.7, III.8 - to change assembly districts, and legislators' compensation and eligibility
as proposed by the NYS Legislature, based on a state commission's recommendation
And the voters said: Yes!
How We Voted
YES |
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61.27% |
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325,904 New Yorkers voted Yes |
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NO |
38.73% |
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206,029 New Yorkers voted No |
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531,933 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.5 proposed for 1875
• Section 5: Assembly reapportionment.
The Assembly shall consist of one hundred and twenty-eight members, elected for one year. The Members of Assembly shall be apportioned among the several counties of the State, by the Legislature, as nearly as may be, according to the number of their respective inhabitants, excluding aliens, and shall be chosen by single districts. The Assembly districts shall remain as at…
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• Section 6: Compensation of members of legislature.
Each member of the Legislature shall receive for his services an annual salary of one thousand five hundred dollars. The members of either house shall also receive the sum of one dollar for every ten miles they shall travel, in going to and returning from their place of meeting, once in each sessio, on the most usual route. Senators, when…
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• Section 7: Member of legislature not eligible to certain appointments.
No member of the Legislature shall receive any civil appointment within this State, or the Senate of the United States, from the Governor, the Governor and Senate, or from the Legislature, or from any city government during the time for which he shall have been elected ; and all such appointments and all votes given forany such member for any…
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• Section 8: Certain Federal and city officers disqualified as members.
No person shall be eligible to the Legislature who, at the time of his election, is, or within one hundred days previous thereto has been, a member of Congress, a civil or military officer under the United States, or an oflicer under any city government; and if any person shall, after his election as a member of the Legislature, be…
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