Ballot Questions
1915
Question #4
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 1915 NY constitutional convention
as proposed by the most recent NYS Constitutional Convention
And the voters said: No!
How We Voted
YES |
30.55% |
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400,423 New Yorkers voted Yes |
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NO |
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69.45% |
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910,462 New Yorkers voted No |
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1,310,885 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.1 proposed for 1916
Article II: Elective franchise • Section 1: Qualifications of voters.
Every male citizen of the age of twenty-one years, who shall have been a citizen for ninety days, and an inhabitant of this state one year next preceding an election, and for the last four months a resident of the county and for the last thirty days a resident of the election district in which he may offer his vote,…
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Article II: Elective franchise • 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: Elective franchise • 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: Elective franchise • Section 4: Laws to be passed.
Laws shall be made for the regulation of elections and for ascertaining by proper proofs the electors who shall be entitled to the right of suffrage hereby established and for their annual registration, which shall be completed at least fifteen days before each general election. Such registration shall not be required for town and village elections except by express provision…
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Article II: Elective franchise • 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: Elective franchise • Section 6: Party representation in election boards, etc.
All laws creating, regulating or affecting boards or officers charged with the duty of registering electors, or of distributing ballots at the polls to electors, 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: 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: Legislature • Section 6: 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: Legislature • Section 7: Political year.
The political year and legislative term shall begin on the first day of January; and the legislature shall, every year, assemble on the first Wednesday in January.
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Article III: Legislature • Section 8: Pay of members.
Each member of the legislature shall receive for his services an annual salary of two thousand five hundred dollars. The members of each house shall also receive the railroad fare actually paid in going to and returning from their place of meeting on the most usual route, but not oftener than once each week during any session of the legislature.…
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Article III: Legislature • Section 9: Powers of each house.
A majority of the members elected to 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 and shall choose its own officers. The senate shall choose a temporary president. The assembly shall choose a speaker. If…
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Article III: Legislature • Section 10: Legislative removal of judge.
The legislature of its own motion, in the manner to be provided by joint rule which shall continue in force until abrogated or amended by both the senate and the assembly, may convene to take action in the matter of removal of a judge of the court of appeals or justice of the supreme court. The assembly of its own…
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Article III: Legislature • Section 11: Persons disqualified from being members.
If any person shall, after his election as a member of the legislature, be elected to congress, or appointed to any office, civil or military, under the government of the United States, or under any city government, his acceptance thereof shall vacate his seat.
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Article III: Legislature • Section 12: Journals to be kept.
Each house shall keep a journal of its proceedings and a record of its debates and promptly publish the same from day to day, 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…
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Article III: Legislature • Section 13: 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: Legislature • Section 14: 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: Legislature • Section 15: 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: Legislature • Section 16: 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. No bill shall be passed or become a law, except by the assent of a majority of the members elected to each branch…
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Article III: Legislature • Section 17: 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: Legislature • Section 18: 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 such 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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