Ballot Questions
1894
Question #1
State Constitutional Amendment
NYS were asked if they wanted to pass an amendment to the NYS constitution,
to change the whole NYS constitution, except for certain provisions with separate ballot questions - as proposed by the 1894 NY constitutional convention
as proposed by the most recent NYS Constitutional Convention
And the voters said: Yes!
How We Voted
YES |
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55.64% |
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410,697 New Yorkers voted Yes |
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NO |
44.36% |
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327,402 New Yorkers voted No |
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738,099 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
II.2 proposed for 1895
Article II: Suffrage • Section 2: Persons excluded from right of suffrage — Challenge — Laws to be passed excluding from right of suffrage.
No person who shall receive, accept, or offer to receive, or pay, offer, or promise to pay, contribute, offer, or promise to contribute to another, to be paid or used, any money or other valuable thing as a compensation or reward for the giving or withholding a vote at an election, or who shall make any promise to influence the…
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Article II: Suffrage • Section 3: Certain employments not to affect residence of voters.
For the purpose of voting, no person shall be deemed to have gained or lost a residence, by reason of his presence or absence, while employed in the service of the United States; nor while engaged in the navigation of the waters of this State, or of the United States, or of the high seas; nor while a student of…
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Article II: Suffrage • Section 4: Laws to be passed.
Laws shall be made for ascertaining, by proper proofs, the citizens who shall be entitled to the right of suffrage hereby established, and for the registration of voters; which registration shall be completed at least ten days before each election. Such registration shall not be required for town and village elections except by express provision of law. In cities and…
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Article II: Suffrage • Section 5: Election to be by ballot.
All elections by the citizens, except for such town officers as may by law be directed to be otherwise chosen, shall be by ballot, or by such other method as may be prescribed by law, provided that secrecy in voting be preserved.
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Article II: Suffrage • Section 6: Party representation in election boards, etc.
All laws creating regulating, or affecting boards or officers charged with the duty of registering voters, or of distributing ballots at the polls to voters, or of receiving, recording, or counting votes at elections, shall secure equal representation of the two political parties which, at the general election next preceding that for which such boards or officers are to serve,…
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Article III: The Legislature • Section 1: Legislative powers.
The legislative power of this State shall be vested in the senate and assembly.
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Article III: The Legislature • Section 6: Pay of members.
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 session, on the most usual route. Senators, when…
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Article III: The Legislature • Section 7: No member to receive an appointment.
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 for any such member for any…
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Article III: The Legislature • Section 8: Persons disqualified from being 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 officer under any city government And if any person shall, after his election as a member of the Legislature, be…
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Article III: The Legislature • Section 9: Time of election fixed.
The elections of senators and members of assembly, pursuant to the provisions of this Constitution, shall be held on the Tuesday succeeding the first Monday of November, unless otherwise directed by the Legislature.
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Article III: The Legislature • Section 10: Powers of each house.
A majority of each house shall constitute a quorum to do business. Each house shall determine the rules of its own proceedings, and be the judge of the elections, returns, and qualifications of its own members; shall choose its own officers; and the senate shall choose a temporary president to preside in case of the absence or impeachment of the…
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Article III: The Legislature • Section 11: Journals to be kept.
Each house shall keep a journal of its proceedings, and publish the same, except such parts as may require secrecy. The doors of each house shall be kept open, except when the public welfare shall require secrecy. Neither house shall, without the consent of the other, adjourn for more than two days.
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Article III: The Legislature • Section 12: No member to be questioned, etc.
For any speech or debate in either house of the Legislature, the members shall not be questioned in any other place.
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Article III: The Legislature • Section 13: Bills may originate in either house.
Any bill may originate in either house of the Legislature, and all bills passed by one house may be amended by the other.
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Article III: The Legislature • Section 14: Enacting clause of bills.
The enacting clause of all bills shall be “The People of the State of New York, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows,” and no law shall be enacted except by bill.
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Article III: The Legislature • Section 15: Assent of a majority of all the members required, etc.
No bill shall be passed or become a law unless it shall have been printed and upon the desks of the members, in its final form, at least three calendar legislative days prior to its final passage, unless the Governor, or the acting Governor, shall have certified to the necessity of its immediate passage, under his hand and the seal…
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Article III: The Legislature • Section 16: Restriction as to private and local bills.
No private or local bill, which may be passed by the Legislature, shall embrace more than one subject, and that shall be expressed in the title.
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Article III: The Legislature • Section 17: Existing law not to be made a part of an act except by inserting it therein.
No act shall be passed which shall provide that any existing law, or any part thereof, shall be made or deemed a part of said act, or which shall enact that any existing law, or part thereof, shall be applicable, except by inserting it in such act.
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Article III: The Legislature • Section 18: Private and local bills, in which cases they may not be passed — General laws to be passed — Street railroads, conditions upon which they may be authorized.
The Legislature shall not pass a private or local bill in any of the following cases: Changing the names of persons. Laying out,- opening, altering, working, or discontinuing roads, highways, or alleys, or for draining swamps or other low lands. Locating or changing county seats. Providing for changes of venue in civil or criminal cases. Incorporating villages. Providing for election…
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Article III: The Legislature • Section 19: The Legislature not to audit or allow any private claim.
The Legislature shall neither audit nor allow any private claim or account against the State, but may appropriate money to pay such claims as shall have been audited and allowed according to law.
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