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Provisions

II.2 proposed for 1870 • Exclusion from right of suffrage.

REJECTED

The Text

No person who shall receive, expect 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, or who shall make any promise to influence, or as a compensation or reward for the giving or withholding a vote at an election, shall vote at such election ; and upon challenge for such cause, the person so challenged, before the inspectors or other officers authorized for that purpose, receive his vote, shall swear or affirm before such inspectors or other officers, that he has not received nor offered, does not expect to receive, has not paid, offered or promised to pay, contributed, offered or promised to contribute to another to be paid or used, any money or other valuable thing, nor made any promise to influence, or as a compensation or reward for the giving or withholding a vote at such election. The Legislature, at the session thereof next after the adoption of this Constitution, shall, and from time to time thereafter may, enact laws excluding from the right of suffrage all persons convicted of bribery or of any infamous crime, and for depriving every person who shall make, or become directly or indirectly interested in, any bet or wager depending upon the result of any election, of the right to vote at such election.


A Few Facts

• Has 233 words

• Was proposed by the Constitutional Convention

• Went to NYS voters as proposed amendment 1 of 1869

If New Yorkers voted to approve this provision, it would have:

• Joined the Constitution in 1870

• Been in Article II:

• Changed the text of a previously existing provision

• Amended or built on:
1847-II.2


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