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Provisions

II.1 proposed for 1916 • Qualifications of voters.

REJECTED

The Text

Every male citizen of the age of twenty-one years, who shall have been a citizen for ninety days, and an inhabitant of this state one year next preceding an election, and for the last four months a resident of the county and for the last thirty days a resident of the election district in which he may offer his vote, shall be entitled to vote at such election in the election district of which he shall at the time be a resident, and not elsewhere, for all officers that now are or hereafter may be elective by the people; and upon all questions which may be submitted to the vote of the people, provided that in time of war no elector in the actual military service of the state, or of the United States, in the army or navy thereof, shall be deprived of his vote by reason of his absence from such election district; and the legislature shall have power to provide the manner in which and the time and place at which such absent electors may vote, and for the return and canvass of their votes in the election districts in which they respectively reside.


A Few Facts

• Has 197 words

• Was proposed by the Constitutional Convention

• Went to NYS voters as proposed amendment 4 of 1915

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

• Joined the Constitution in 1916

• Been in Article II: Elective franchise

• Re-upped the text of a previously existing provision

• Amended or built on:
1895-II.1


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