Constitution confab not fab

New York state voters soundly rejected a ballot proposal to hold a constitutional convention — but they approved a measure to yank the pensions of crooked politicians.

Public unions mounted a multimillion-dollar campaign against the convention, claiming it could end up jeopardizing pension protections in the state Constitution.

Supporters countered that the unions’ claim was a scare tactic intended to block reforms that had nothing to do with stripping pensions.

Gov. Cuomo came out against the Con-Con just before the vote.

With 97 percent of the state’s 15,526 election districts reporting, Proposition 1 was being crushed, 83 percent to 17 percent.

About 10 percent of the ballots were blank — possibly because many voters didn’t realize that they had to flip them over to see the side where the three proposition questions were listed.

Voters did approved Propo- sition 2, which asked whether judges should have the right to revoke the pensions of public officials convicted of felonies related to their jobs.

About 73 percent of voters said yes, compared with 27 percent opposed.

Proposition 3 also passed, 52 percent to 48 percent. It asked whether upstate municipalities should have the right to use 250 acres of forest land for projects as long as the same amount of land becomes protected.