Provisions
II.3 of 1895 • Certain employments not to affect residence of voters.
APPROVED
The Text
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 any seminary of learning; nor while kept at any almshouse, or other asylum, or institution wholly or partly supported at public expense or by charity; nor while confined in any public prison.
A Few Facts
• Joined the Constitution in 1895
• In Article II: Suffrage
• Has 92 words
• Was proposed by the Constitutional Convention
• Went to NYS voters as proposed amendment 1 of 1894
• Changed the text of a previously existing provision
• Amends or builds on:
◦ 1847-II.3
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