Senate Bill S6620

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Relates to completing and filing watcher certificates and the form and manner of challenges of voter qualifications

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2013-S6620 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A8770
Current Committee:
Senate Rules
Law Section:
Election Law
Laws Affected:
Amd El L, generally

2013-S6620 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to completing and filing watcher certificates and the form and manner of challenges of voter qualifications; makes it a misdemeanor to wilfully lose, alter, destroy or mutilate a challenge report.

2013-S6620 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2013-S6620 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  6620

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            February 14, 2014
                               ___________

Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of the Attorney General)
  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to
  the Committee on Rules

AN  ACT  to amend the election law, in relation to completing and filing
  watcher certificates and the form and manner of  challenges  of  voter
  qualifications

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Section 4-117 of the election law is amended  by  adding  a
new subdivision 4 to read as follows:
  4.  ANY PERSON, OTHER THAN AN ELECTION OFFICER, WHO MAILS OR CAUSES TO
BE MAILED, BETWEEN AUGUST FIRST AND DECEMBER THIRTY-FIRST OF ANY  CALEN-
DAR  YEAR,  ANY FIRST CLASS NONFORWARDABLE MAIL, WHERE SUCH PERSON KNOWS
OR REASONABLY SHOULD KNOW THAT SUCH NONFORWARDABLE MAIL: (A) IS INTENDED
TO BE DELIVERED TO A REGISTERED VOTER OR VOTER  REGISTRATION  APPLICANT;
AND  (B) MAY BE USED BY A CHALLENGER, OTHER THAN AN ELECTION OFFICER, ON
ELECTION DAY TO CHALLENGE THE QUALIFICATIONS  OF  A  VOTER,  SHALL  FILE
WITHIN  TWO  BUSINESS  DAYS  OF  SUCH  MAILING, A DUPLICATE COPY OF SUCH
NONFORWARDABLE MAIL, A DUPLICATE COPY OF NAMES AND  ADDRESSES  TO  WHICH
SUCH  NONFORWARDABLE  MAIL  WAS SENT, AND A COMPLETED FORM PRESCRIBED BY
THE STATE BOARD OF ELECTIONS. THE FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH THE  PROVISIONS
OF THIS SUBDIVISION SHALL BE PUNISHABLE AS A MISDEMEANOR.
  S  2. Subdivision 1-a of section 8-104 of the election law, as amended
by chapter 164 of the laws of 2010, is amended to read as follows:
  1-a. The election inspectors shall conspicuously post in  the  polling
place  before  the  opening  of  the polls, a voter information posting,
which shall include: (a) the sample ballot and instructions for the  use
of  ballot  scanners  and  ballot  marking  devices required pursuant to
section 7-118 of this chapter; (b) a statement that "today  is  election
day"  and  the  hours  during  which  polling  places  will be open; (c)
instructions on how to cast an affidavit ballot and a concise  statement
of  a  voter's  right  to  such  a  ballot; (d) instructions relating to
requirements for voting on ballot scanners by those registrants who must
provide identification pursuant to the federal Help America Vote Act  of

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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