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by two electors residing in the election district, and in the case of electors incapacitated by illness shall be made by a physician and one elector residing in the election district. [but voters] Voters not residing in such cities or villages shall not be required to apply in person for registration at the first meeting of the officers having charge of the registry of voters.

§ 4. Laws shall be made for ascertaining, by proper proofs, the citizens who shall be entitled to the right of suffrage hereby established, and for the registration of voters; which registration shall be completed at least ten days before each election. [Such registration shall not be required for town and village elections except by express provision of law. In cities and villages having five thousand inhabitants or more, according to the last preceding state enumeration of inhabitants, voters shall be registered upon personal application only; but voters not residing in such cities or villages shall not be required to apply in person for registration at the first meeting of the officers having charge of the registry of voters.]

3. Personal registration for all elections

4. Laws shall be made for ascertaining, by proper proofs, the citizens who shall be entitled to the right of suffrage hereby established, and for the registration of voters; which registration shall be upon personal application only and shall be completed at least ten days before each election. [Such registration shall not be required for town and village elections except by express provision of law. In cities and villages having five thousand inhabitants or more, according to the last preceding state enumeration of inhabitants, voters shall be registered upon personal application only; but voters not residing in such cities or villages shall not

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be required to apply in person for registration at the first meeting of the officers having charge of the registry of voters].

1911. A. No. 2605 (Int. 990).

A. J. 733, 3940, 4102, 4174.

4. Personal registration of all electors

§ 4. Laws shall be made for ascertaining by proper proofs, the citizens who shall be entitled to the right of suffrage hereby established, and for the registration of voters; which registration shall be completed at least ten days before each election. Such registration shall not be required for town and village elections except by express provision of law. [In cities and villages having five thousand inhabitants or more, according to the last preceding state enumeration of inhabitants, voters] Voters shall be registered upon personal application only; but voters not residing in such cities or villages shall not be required to apply in person for registration at the first meeting of the officers having charge of the registry of voters].

1911. S. No. 980 (Int. 868). S. J. 529.

5. Provisional registration

§ 4. Laws shall be made for ascertaining, by proper proofs, the citizens who shall be entitled to the right of suffrage hereby established, and for the registration of voters; which registration shall be completed at least ten days before each election [.], except that upon the filing of such sworn proofs as shall be required by law, electors may be registered provisionally; which provisional registration shall not be effective unless such electors shall appear in person previous to election day before the officers having charge of the registry of voters. Such registration shall not be required for town and village [elections] electors except by express provisions of law. In cities and villages having five thousand inhabitants or more, according to the last preceding state enumeration of inhabitants, voters shall be registered upon personal application only; but voters not residing in such cities or villages shall not be required to apply in person for registration at the first meeting of the officers having charge of the registry of voters.

1904. A. No. 1186 (Int. 954).

A. J. 836, 1970, 2069.

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6. Conduct of elections-corrupt practices

87. (Proposal to add the following new section:) The legislature shall enact laws declaring the uses which may be lawfully made of money or other valuable things, and the amounts in which they may be lawfully used, by or on behalf of any person, to promote his nomination for or election to public office, or on account of or in respect of the conduct or management of any public election within this state. The use or promise of money or any other valuable thing to promote the nomination or election of any person to public office, or on account of or in respect of the conduct or management of any public election within this state, otherwise than is expressly authorized by such laws is prohibited; and any person by whom, or by or with whose procurement, connivance or consent, or for whose benefit, the same is so used or promised, shall, if elected, forfeit his office, and shall be subject to such other penalties as the legislature shall from time to time determine. The legislature shall enact laws prescribing the courts and the procedure by which such questions may be speedily tried upon the suit of any elector.

1905. A. No. 90 (Int. 90).

8 7. (Proposal to add the following new section:) All laws relating to registration and qualification of voters, primary elections and officers charged with the duty of enforcing the laws relating to elections, registration and primaries, shall be uniform and of universal application throughout the state. All officers hereafter created to enforce any of the election, primary or registration laws shall consist of an even number, and shall secure equal representation of the two political parties, which at the last preceding state election, at which a governor was elected, cast the highest and next highest number of votes. All such officers shall be appointed or elected for the entire state, and in such manner, and upon nomination of such representatives of said parties respectively, as the legislature may direct.

1911. S. No. 1945 (Int. 1525).

S. J. 1644.

Article III, § 1

ARTICLE III

§ 1. The legislative power of this State shall be vested in the Senate and Assembly.

AMENDMENTS PROPOSED BUT NOT SUBMITTED TO THE PEOPLE 1. Initiative and referendum

§ 1. (Proposal to add the following:) and in addition thereto shall be vested in the electors qualified to vote for governor.

a. The right to propose amendments to this constitution and measures for the governance of the whole state, shall (in addition to being exercised by members of the legislature) be vested in any five per centum of the voters of the state qualified to vote for governor; and the right to propose measures for the governance of any municipal division of the state (such as county, city, town, township, borough, village, and so forth), shall in like manner (in addition to being exercised by members of the legislative body or bodies thereof), be vested in any five per centum of the voters of any such municipal division qualified to vote for the chief executive or executives of such division.

b. The right to reject or to approve any measure for the government of the whole state, which shall have been passed by the legislature, or proposed and submitted by either house thereof or by the required number of voters under the provisions of this article, shall be vested in the voters qualified to vote for governor. The right to reject or to approve any measure for the governance of any municipal division passed by the legislature, or by the legislative body or bodies of any such division, or proposed by the voters of such division, shall be vested in the voters of the municipal division affected thereby qualified to vote for chief executive or executives of such division. The exercise of the right of rejection or approval hereunder shall take place whenever any five per centum of the voters qualified to vote thereon shall, according to the provisions of this article, demand a submission to direct vote of the voters of any such measure or amendment to this constitution.

c. Whenever any amendment to this constitution, or any measure whatsoever, shall be submitted to the voters of the state, or of any municipal division thereof, for rejection or approval by them, the same shall become law if the official canvass of the ballots for

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and against the same shall show that more persons have voted for than have voted against the enactment thereof.

d. The legal designation of the exercise of the right of proposal under the provisions of this article shall be "the initiative;" and the legal designation of the exercise of the right of rejection or approval thereunder shall be "the referendum."

e. All demands for the referendum shall be written or printed, and shall, when demanding submission of measures already enacted by the legislature or by the legislative body or bodies of any municipal division, refer to the same by title, chapter, and number, or such other official designation as such measure may bear, and shall in all other cases contain the full text of such measure or proposed amendment to this constitution. Such demands made by voters, shall be signed by at least five per centum of the voters qualified to vote thereon, and all demands for the referendum whatsoever shall, in the case of all matters to be submitted to the voters of the whole state, be filed with the secretary of state, and, in the case of matters to be submitted to the voters of any municipal division thereof, with the officer of such division acting as its clerk or recording officer. The percentage of voters whose signatures are required to make any such demand legal and mandatory shall, in the case of those filed with the secretary of state, be computed upon the votes cast for governor at the last election preceding the filing thereof, and, in the case of demands filed with the clerk of any municipal division upon the votes cast for the chief executive thereof at the last election therefor.

f. The legislature may, by a three-fourths vote of all the members elected to each branch thereof, declare certain bills to be urgent, and such bill so declared to be urgent unless otherwise explicitly stated therein when approved by the governor, shall take immediate effect; but the legislature shall have no power to declare bills to be urgent except those relating solely to the immediate preservation of the public safety, of the public peace, or of the public health.

g. Bills passed by the legislature other than those declared to be urgent, and which shall become law with or without the approval of the governor, shall go into effect at twelve o'clock noon of the ninetieth day after the final adjournment of the legislature passing the same, excluding the day of adjournment, or at such later date as may be expressly stated in the bill; but if a demand for the