Voters continue to show support for N.Y. constitutional convention

A recent poll shows that voters statewide show broad support for holding a constitutional convention, though they have yet to hear interest groups’ loud calls for and against holding one. The question will be on the ballot this November.

A Siena College poll released last week shows that 62 percent of voters statewide support having a convention in 2019, at which elected delegates would propose and vote on constitutional amendments. Any proposed changes would require final signoff by voters.

Should they elect to hold a convention, voters will pick delegates in 2018.

Yet 67 percent of voters say they’ve heard nothing about the convention.

A constitutional convention enjoys broad support across party and regional lines. Sixty-seven percent of Democrats, 55 percent of Republicans and 59 percent of independents support holding one, as do 63 percent of upstate respondents. Even in union households — those likely to already have heard from some major state unions opposed to a convention — 60 percent say they support holding a convention.

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