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New York Retirement Age of Supreme Court Justices, Amendment 8 (1965)
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The New York Retirement Age of Supreme Court Justices, Amendment 8, also known as Proposed Amendment No. 8, was on the ballot in New York on November 2, 1965, as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment. It was defeated. This measures would have amended Article 6, Section 25(b) of the Constitution. It would have permitted "any former judge of the surrogates court in any county within New York city or in Nassau, Suffolk or Westchester counties, in addition to former court of appeals judges and former supreme court justices, to perform the duties of supreme court justices until December 31 of the year he reaches age 76."[1]
Election results
| New York Proposed Amendment No. 8 (1965) | ||||
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| Result | Votes | Percentage | ||
 No | 1,540,430 | 53.70% | ||
| Yes | 1,328,360 | 46.30% | ||
Election results via: New York State Court System
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