Ballot Questions
1943
Question #4
State Constitutional Amendment
NYS were asked if they wanted to pass an amendment to the NYS constitution,
to change II.1 - to change residence requirement for voting purposes, so that it will be satisfied by four months residence within the county, city, or village (not just county)
as proposed by the NYS Legislature
And the voters said: Yes!
How We Voted
YES |
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73.08% |
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599,330 New Yorkers voted Yes |
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NO |
26.92% |
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220,812 New Yorkers voted No |
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820,142 votes determined the outcome of this ballot question.
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II.1 proposed for 1944
Article II: Suffrage • Section 1: Qualifications of voters.
Every citizen of the age of twenty-one years, who shall have been a citizen for ninety days, and an inhabitant of this state for one year next preceding an election, and for the last four months a resident of the county, city, or village and for the last thirty days a resident of the election district to which he or…
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