Provisions
II.2 of 1948
APPROVED
The Text
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 election, be unavoidably absent from the place of their residence because they are inmates of a soldiers’ and sailors’ home or of a United States veterans’ bureau hospital, or because their duties, occupation or business, or those of members of their families, require them to be elsewhere, may vote and for the return and canvass of their votes.
A Few Facts
• Joined the Constitution in 1948
• In Article II: Suffrage
• Has 85 words
• Was proposed by the Legislature
• Went to NYS voters as proposed amendment 2 of 1947
• Changed the text of a previously existing provision
• Amends or builds on:
◦ 1939-II.2
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