Ballot Questions
2001
Question #1
State Constitutional Amendment
NYS were asked if they wanted to pass an amendment to the NYS constitution,
to change I.1, I.3, I.6, I.8, I.9, I.11, I.17, I.18, II.3, II.4, II.6, II.9, III.2, III.6, III.14, IV.1, IV.2, IV.3, IV.4, IV.5, IV.6, IV.7, V.1, V.6, VI.2, VI.3, VI.4, VI.20, VI.22, VI.23, VI.24, VI.25, VI.26, VI.27, VI.28, VI.35, VII.1, VII.2, VII.3, VII.4, VII.8, VII.15, IX.1, IX.2, XIII.3, XIII.7, XIII.13, XVI.5, XVI.6, XVII.4, XIX.1, XIX.2
as proposed by the NYS Legislature
And the voters said: Yes!
How We Voted
YES |
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55.80% |
983,858 New Yorkers voted Yes |
NO |
44.20% |
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779,437 New Yorkers voted No |
1,763,295 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
I.1 proposed for 2002
Article I: Bill Of Rights • Section 1: Rights, privileges and franchise secured; power of legislature to dispense with primary elections in certain cases
No member of this state shall be disfranchised, or deprived of any of the rights or privileges secured to any citizen thereof, unless by the law of the land, or the judgment of his or her peers, except that the legislature may provide that there shall be no primary election held to nominate candidates for public office or to elect…
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Article I: Bill Of Rights • Section 3: Trial by jury; how waived
Trial by jury in all cases in which it has heretofore been guaranteed by constitutional provision shall remain inviolate forever; but a jury trial may be waived by the parties in all civil cases in the manner to be prescribed by law. The legislature may provide, however, by law, that a verdict may be rendered by not less than five-sixths…
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Article I: Bill Of Rights • Section 6: Grand jury; protection of certain enumerated rights; duty of public officers to sign waiver of immunity and give testimony; penalty for refusal
No person shall be held to answer for a capital or otherwise infamous crime (except in cases of impeachment, and in cases of militia when in actual service, and the land, air and naval forces in time of war, or which this state may keep with the consent of congress in time of peace, and in cases of petit larceny…
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Article I: Bill Of Rights • Section 8: Freedom of speech and press; criminal prosecutions for libel
We’re still sourcing the text of this provision – check back soon!I.9 proposed for 2002
Article I: Bill Of Rights • Section 9: Right to assemble and petition; divorce; lotteries; pool-selling and gambling; laws to prevent; pari-mutual betting on horse races permitted; games of chance, bingo or lotto authorized under certain restrictions
1. No law shall be passed abridging the rights of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition the government, or any department thereof; nor shall any divorce be granted otherwise than by due judicial proceedings; except as hereinafter provided, no lottery or the sale of lottery tickets, pool-selling, book-making, or any other kind of gambling, except lotteries operated by…
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Article I: Bill Of Rights • Section 11: Equal protection of laws; discrimination in civil rights prohibited
No person shall be denied the equal protection of the laws of this state or any subdivision thereof. No person shall, because of race, color, creed or religion, be subjected to any discrimination in his or her civil rights by any other person or by any firm, corporation, or institution, or by the state or any agency or subdivision of…
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Article I: Bill Of Rights • Section 17: Labor not a commodity; hours and wages in public work; right to organize and bargain collectively
Labor of human beings is not a commodity nor an article of commerce and shall never be so considered or construed. No laborer, worker or mechanic, in the employ of a contractor or sub-contractor engaged in the performance of any public work, shall be permitted to work more than eight hours in any day or more than five days in…
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Article I: Bill Of Rights • Section 18: Workers' compensation
Nothing contained in this constitution shall be construed to limit the power of the legislature to enact laws for the protection of the lives, health, or safety of employees; or for the payment, either by employers, or by employers and employees or otherwise, either directly or through a state or other system of insurance or otherwise, of compensation for injuries…
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Article II: Suffrage • Section 3: Persons excluded from the 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 4: Certain occupations and conditions not to affect residence
For the purpose of voting, no person shall be deemed to have gained or lost a residence, by reason of his or her 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…
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Article II: Suffrage • Section 6: Permanent registration
The legislature may provide by law for a system or systems of registration whereby upon personal application a voter may be registered and his or her registration continued so long as he or she shall remain qualified to vote from an address within the jurisdiction of the board with which such voter is registered.
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Article II: Suffrage • Section 9: Presidential elections; special voting procedures authorized
Notwithstanding the residence requirements imposed by section one of this article, the legislature may, by general law, provide special procedures whereby every person who shall have moved from another state to this state or from one county, city or village within this state to another county, city or village within this state and who shall have been an inhabitant of…
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Article III: Legislature • Section 2: Number and terms of senators and assemblymen
The senate shall consist of fifty members, except as hereinafter provided. The senators elected in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five shall hold their offices for three years, and their successors shall be chosen for two years. The assembly shall consist of one hundred and fifty members. The assembly members elected in the year one thousand nine hundred…
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Article III: Legislature • Section 6: Compensation, allowances and traveling expenses of members
Each member of the legislature shall receive for his or her services a like annual salary, to be fixed by law. He or she shall also be reimbursed for his or her actual traveling expenses in going to and returning from the place in which the legislature meets, not more than once each week while the legislature is in session.…
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Article III: Legislature • Section 14: Manner of passing bills; message of necessity for immediate vote
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, under his or her hand and the seal of the state, the facts…
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Article IV: Executive • Section 1: Executive power; election and terms of governor and lieutenant-governor
The executive power shall be vested in the governor, who shall hold office for four years; the lieutenant-governor shall be chosen at the same time, and for the same term. The governor and lieutenant-governor shall be chosen at the general election held in the year nineteen hundred thirty-eight, and each fourth year thereafter. They shall be chosen jointly, by the…
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Article IV: Executive • Section 2: Qualifications of governor and lieutenant-governor
No person shall be eligible to the office of governor or lieutenant-governor, except a citizen of the United States, of the age of not less than thirty years, and who shall have been five years next preceding the election a resident of this state.
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Article IV: Executive • Section 3: Powers and duties of governor; compensation
The governor shall be commander-in-chief of the military and naval forces of the state. The governor shall have power to convene the legislature, or the senate only, on extraordinary occasions. At extraordinary sessions convened pursuant to the provisions of this section no subject shall be acted upon, except such as the governor may recommend for consideration. The governor shall communicate…
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Article IV: Executive • Section 4: Reprieves, commutations and pardons; powers and duties of governor relating to grants of
The governor shall have the power to grant reprieves, commutations and pardons after conviction, for all offenses except treason and cases of impeachment, upon such conditions and with such restrictions and limitations, as he or she may think proper, subject to such regulations as may be provided by law relative to the manner of applying for pardons. Upon conviction for…
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Article IV: Executive • Section 5: When lieutenant-governor to act as governor
In case of the removal of the governor from office or of his or her death or resignation, the lieutenant-governor shall become governor for the remainder of the term. In case the governor-elect shall decline to serve or shall die, the lieutenant-governor-elect shall become governor for the full term. In case the governor is impeached, is absent from the state…
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