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Provisions

II.6 proposed for 1916 • Party representation in election boards, etc.

REJECTED

The Text

All laws creating, regulating or affecting boards or officers charged with the duty of registering electors, or of distributing ballots at the polls to electors, or of receiving, recording or counting votes at elections, shall secure equal representation of the two political parties which, at the general election next preceding that for which such boards or officers are to serve, cast the highest and the next highest number of votes. All such boards and officers shall be appointed or elected in such manner, and upon the nomination of such representatives of such parties respectively, as the legislature may direct. Existing laws on this subject shall continue until the legislature shall otherwise provide. This section shall not apply to town meetings or to village elections.


A Few Facts

• Has 124 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.6


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