Article II.
Suffrage

Section 2. Absent voters

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Absentee voting

The legislature may, by general law, provide a manner in which, and the time and place at which, qualified voters who, on the occurrence of any election, may be absent from the county of their residence or, if residents of the city of New York, from the city, and qualified voters who, on the occurrence of any election, may be unable to appear personally at the polling place because of illness or physical disability, may vote and for the return and canvass of their votes.

Absent voters

The legislature may, by general law, provide a manner in which, and the time and place at which, qualified voters who, on the occurrence of any election, may be unavoidably absent from the place of their residence because they are inmates of a soldiers’ and sailors’ home or of a United States veterans’ bureau hospital, or because their duties, occupation or business, or those of members of their families, require them to be elsewhere, and qualified voters who, on the occurrence of any election, may be unable to appear personally at the polling place because of illness or physical disability, may vote and for the return and canvass of their votes.

Absent voters

The legislature may, by general law, provide a manner in which, and the time and place at which, qualified voters who may, on the occurrence of any election, be unavoidably absent from the place of their residence because they are inmates of a soldiers’ and sailors’ home or of a United States veterans’ bureau hospital, or because their duties, occupation or business, or those of members of their families, require them to be elsewhere, may vote and for the return and canvass of their votes.

Absent voters

The legislature may, by general law, provide a manner in which, and the time and place at which, qualified voters who may, on the occurrence of any general election be unavoidably absent from the state or county of their residence because they are inmates of a soldiers’ and sailors’ home or of a United States veterans’ bureau hospital, or because their duties, occupation or business require them to be elsewhere within the United States, may vote, and for the return and canvass of their votes in the election district in which they respectively reside.

Absent voters

The legislature may, by general law, provide a manner in which, and the time and place at which, qualified voters who may, on the occurrence of any general election be unavoidably absent from the state or county of their residence because they are inmates of a soldiers’ and sailors’ home or of a United States veterans’ bureau hospital, or because their duties, occupation or business require them to be elsewhere within the United States, may vote, and for the return and canvass of their votes in the election district in which they respectively reside.

Absentee voting

The legislature may, by general law, provide a manner in which, and the time and place at which, qualified voters who may, on the occurrence of any general election be unavoidably absent from the state or county of their residence because they are inmates of a soldiers’ and sailors’ home, or because their duties, occupation or business require them to be elsewhere within the United States, may vote, and for the return and canvass of their votes in the election district in which they respectively reside.

Absentee voting

The legislature may, by general law, provide a manner in which, and the time and place at which, qualified voters who may, on the occurrence of any general election, be unavoidably absent from the state or county of their residence because their duties, occupation or business require them to be elsewhere within the United States, may vote, and for the return and canvass of their votes in the election district in which they respectively reside.

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