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Provisions

II.3 proposed for 1870 • Right of suffrage not affected by certain occupations and conditions.

REJECTED

The Text

For the purpose of voting, no person shall be deemed to have gained a residence by reason of his presence, or lost it by reason of his absence, while employed in the service of the State or of the United States ; nor while engaged in the navigation of the waters of the State or of the United States, or on the high seas ; nor while a student of any seminary of learning ; nor while kept in any almshouse or other asylum ; not while confined in any public prison. The Legislature shall prescribe the manner in which electors absent from their homes in time of war, in the actual military or naval service of the State, or of the United State, may vote ; and shall provide for the canvass and return of their votes.


A Few Facts

• Has 138 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.3


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