ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Voters across New York have overwhelmingly approved a minor land swap in a remote northwestern corner of the Adirondacks in one of two statewide ballot propositions.

In the other, they authorized the state to allow inmates to do volunteer work for nonprofit groups.

In return for six acres that National Grid is already using for a new power line in the town of Colton, the state will get 43 acres of the utility's land, also in St. Lawrence County. It's a deal municipal officials, environmentalists and businesses supported.

Without this deal, the company would have to run a power line through ancient forest land. Environmental groups found the land swap preferable to threatening old-growth woodlands.

The election results aren't official, but both measures had strong support among voters Tuesday.