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Dec 04, 2020 |
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Assembly Bill A11167
2019-2020 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
ROSENTHAL D
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Assembly Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
2019-A11167 (ACTIVE) - Details
- Current Committee:
- Assembly Election Law
- Law Section:
- Election Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd §9-209, El L
- Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
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2019-A11167 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 11167 I N A S S E M B L Y December 4, 2020 ___________ Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. D. Rosen- thal) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Election Law AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to the canvass of absentee ballots as they are received THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 9-209 of the election law, as amended by chapter 104 of the laws of 2010, is amended to read as follows: 1. (a) The board of elections shall designate itself or such of its employees as it shall deem appropriate as a set of poll clerks to cast and canvass such ballots[, and fix a time and place for their meeting for such purpose, provided that such meeting shall be no more than four- teen days after a general or special election and no more than eight days after a primary election at which such ballots are voted] IMME- DIATELY AS THEY ARE RECEIVED. The board may designate additional sets of poll clerks and if it designates more than one such set shall apportion among all such sets the election districts from which such ballots have been received, provided that all such ballots from a single election district shall be assigned to a single set of clerks, and that each such set shall be divided equally between representatives of the two major political parties. Each such set of clerks shall be deemed a central board of inspectors for purposes of this section. (b) [At least five days prior to the time fixed for such meeting] PRIOR TO THE BOARD OF ELECTIONS RECEIVING SUCH BALLOTS, the board shall send notice by first class mail to each candidate, political party, and independent body entitled to have had watchers present at the polls in any election district in the board's jurisdiction. Such notice shall state the time and place fixed by the board for WHEN such canvass SHALL BEGIN. (c) Each such candidate, political party, and independent body shall be entitled to appoint such number of watchers to attend upon each central board of inspectors as such candidate, political party, or inde- pendent body was entitled to appoint at such election in any one EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
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