Provisions
IV.3 of 1895 • Time and manner of electing Governor and Lieutenant-Governor.
APPROVED
The Text
The Governor and Lieutenant Governor shall be elected at the times and places of choosing members of the assembly. The persons respectively having the highest number of votes for Governor and Lieutenant Governor shall be elected; but in case two or more shall have an equal and the highest number of votes for Governor, or for Lieutenant Governor, the two houses of the Legislature, at its next annual session, shall forthwith, by joint ballot, choose one of the said persons so having an equal and the highest number of votes for Governor or Lieutenant Governor.
A Few Facts
• Joined the Constitution in 1895
• In Article IV: The Executive
• Has 95 words
• Was proposed by the Constitutional Convention
• Went to NYS voters as proposed amendment 1 of 1894
• Re-upped the text of a previously existing provision
• Amends or builds on:
◦ 1847-IV.3
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