Provisions
II.4 proposed for 1870 • Registration of voters.
REJECTED
The Text
Laws shall be made for ascertaining, by proper proofs, the citizens who are entitled to the right of suffrage hereby established. The Legislature shall provide for a registry of citizens entitled to vote in each election district, to be completed four days before each general and special State elecion, and charter elections in cities. No person shall vote at such elections who is not registered according to law, and the mode of registration shall be uniform in all cities.
A Few Facts
• Has 79 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.4
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