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Ballot Questions

1929

Question #2

State Constitutional Amendment

NYS were asked if they wanted to pass an amendment to the NYS constitution,

to change II.1.a - to extend absentee voting to veterans in United States veterans' bureau hospitals


as proposed by the NYS Legislature

And the voters said: Yes!

How We Voted

YES

81.34%

1,119,164 New Yorkers voted Yes

NO

18.66%

256,664 New Yorkers voted No

1,375,828 votes determined the outcome of this ballot question.

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This BQ Amended

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.a proposed for 1930

    Article II: Suffrage • Section 1.a: Absentee voting.

    The legislature may, by general law, provide a manner in which, and the time and place at which, qualified voters who may, on the occurrence of any general election be unavoidably absent from the state or county of their residence because they are inmates of a soldiers’ and sailors’ home or of a United States veterans’ bureau hospital, or because…

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