Vote Cast for Constitutional Conventions and Amendments

Nov. 8, 1977 For a convention to revise the Constitution and amend the same 1,126,902
  Against 1,668,137
Nov. 8, 1977 For amendment of section 2 and adding new section 36-a, article 6 (providing for the creation of a commission on judicial nomination and amending the method of selection of judges of the court of appeals) 1,508,258
  Against 1,311,621
Nov. 8, 1977 For amendment of articles 6 and 7 (administration of the unified court system) 1,551,190
  Against 1,123,636
Nov. 8, 1977 For amendment of article 6 (creation of a commission on judicial conduct and procedures for the admonition, removal, censure and retirement of judges or justices) 1,729,357
  Against 961,989
Nov. 8, 1977 For amendment of subdivision a section 17, article 6 (jurisdiction of courts for towns villages and cities outside the city of New York) 1,195,211
  Against 1,323,455
Nov. 8, 1977 For amendment of subdivision 2, section 8, article 7 (increasing pension benefits payable to widows and widowers of retired members of a retirement system of the state or of a subdivision of the state) 1,598,758
  Against 1,200,116
Nov. 8, 1977 For amendment of section 3, article 13 (filling of vacancies on boards of education) 1,281,541
  Against 1,272,654
Nov. 8, 1977 For amendment of section 8, article 10 (increasing from $150,000,000 to $300,000,000 the maximum principal amount of bonds for which the legislature may make the state the guarantor in behalf of the job development authority) 1,239,343
  Against 1,374,781
Nov. 8, 1977 For amendment of subdivision 3, section 8, article 7 (permitting a public corporation subject to authorization by the legislature, to make or guarantee certain loans to improve employment opportunities in the state) 1,399,211
  Against 1,178,071

Nov. 6, 1979 For amendment of section 8, article 10 (increasing from $150,000,000 to $300,000,000 the maximum amount for which the legislature may make the state liable as guarantor on bonds issued by a public corporation such as the job development authority) 1,149,429
  Against 1,277,476
Nov. 6, 1979 For amendment of section 1, article 14 (enabling the legislature to exchange specific lands in the state forest preserve in Hamilton county with International Paper Company) 1 ,204,753
  Against 1,170,181
Nov. 6, 1979 For amendment of section 22, article 3 (permitting the legislature to incorporate, by reference, any federal tax laws into the state tax law) 1,009,232
  Against 1,327,008

Nov. 3, 1981 For amendment of section 8, article 10 (increasing from $150,000,000 to $300,000,000 the maximum amount for which the legislature may make the state liable as guarantor on bonds issued by a public corporation such as the job development authority) 1,488,529
  Against 973,709

Nov. 8, 1983 For amendment to paragraph E, section five, article 8 (permitting the exclusion from constitutional limits of indebtedness contracted by municipalities (Jan. 1, 1962 - Jan. 1, 1994) for construction or reconstruction of sewage facilities) 1,344,794
  Against 1,241,760
Nov. 8, 1983 For amendment of section 3, article 10 (removing restrictions upon the issuance of capital stock by savings banks and institutions for savings, removing certain restrictions upon their trustees, and including savings and loan associations within its provisions) 1,617,862
  Against 1,035,645
Nov. 8, 1983 For amendment of subdivision b, section 25, article 6 (authorizing the legislature, by law, to permit the continuation of the services of certain judges and justices after retirement upon appointment by the administrative board of the courts) 1,144,573
  Against 1,466,970
Nov. 8, 1983 For amendment of subdivision f, section 26, article 6 (permitting the temporary assignment of a judge of the family court to the supreme court in the judicial department of his residence) 1,593,114
  Against 990,426
Nov. 8, 1983 For amendment of section 1, article 14 (authorizing the exchange of certain Adirondack Park land between the state and Sagamore Institute, Inc.) 1,602,228
  Against 951,970
Nov. 8, 1983 For amendment of article 6, subdivision a, section 11; subdivision b, section 15; subdivision d, section 16 (raising the monetary jurisdictional limitations of certain courts) 1,314,754
  Against 1,084,200
Nov. 8, 1983 For amendment of article 16 adding new section 6 (authorizing a new way for municipalities to finance public improvements and redevelopment projects) 1,387,876
  Against 1,095,199

Nov. 6, 1984 For amendment of subdivision a, section 13, article 13 (providing that the sheriff and county clerk of each county shall be elected once in every three or four years as the legislature shall direct) 2,118,846
  Against 1,020,593
Nov. 6, 1984 For amendment of subdivision 2, section 9, article 1 (providing that dollar amounts of prizes for certain games of chance, now restricted by the constitution, may be changed by the legislature) 1,803,103
  Against 1,387,489

Nov. 5, 1985 For amendment of subdivision 3, section 8, article 7 and amending section 8, article 10 (permitting a public corporation to loan up to 60 percent rather than 40 percent of a projectÆs cost; and increasing from $300,000,000 to $600,000,000 the maximum amount for which the legislature may make the state liable as guarantor on bonds issued by a public corporation such as the job development authority) 1,426,326
  Against 663,891
Nov. 5, 1985 For amendment of section 22, article 3 (permitting the legislature or any local government to incorporate by reference any provision of the laws of the United States in state laws imposing, continuing or reviving a tax) 946,764
  Against 999,056
Nov. 5, 1985 For amendment of article 6, section 3, subdivision b, adding new paragraph (9) (expanding the jurisdiction of the court of appeals) 1,249,238
  Against 654,198
Nov. 5, 1985 For amendment of section 2, article 8 (authorizing municipalities or school districts to issue sinking fund bonds to finance indebtedness) 1,049,473
  Against 885,424
Nov. 5, 1985 For repealing subparagraph (e) of section 10, article 8 (limiting the amount to be raised through real estate taxes by certain school districts; relettering subparagraph (f) as subparagraph (e)) 994,490
  Against 982,430

Nov. 3 , 1987 For amendment of section 6, article 5 (granting civil service credits to aliens lawfully admitted for permanent residence in the United States who served in the Armed Forces of the United States in time of war and who are New York State residents; and deleting the invalidated requirement that a veteran be a resident of New York state at the time of his entrance into the Armed Forces) 1,219,180
  Against 519,769
Nov. 3, 1987 For amendment of section 1, article 14 (increasing the number of miles of ski trails and their width that may be constructed and maintained on forest preserve land on Whiteface Mountain in Essex County, Belleayre Mountain in Ulster and Delaware counties and Gore and Pete Gay mountains in Warren County; deleting the authorization of ski trails on the slopes of South Mountain in Warren county; and conforming the Whiteface Mountain authorization to those of Belleayre, Gore and Pete Gay mountains by including appurtenances in the authorization) 881,350
  Against 806,091

 
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