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Assembly Bill A8364

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Establishes a deadline for changing the location of a polling place for early voting

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2021-A8364 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Election Law
Law Section:
Election Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §8-600, El L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A1565

2021-A8364 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes a deadline for changing the location of a polling place for early voting by requiring that no location change may occur within forty-eight hours of the commencement of an early voting period.

2021-A8364 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8364
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             October 20, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. SIMON -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Election Law
 
 AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to establishing a deadline
   for changing the location of a polling place for an early voting peri-
   od
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  4  of  section  8-600 of the election law is
 amended by adding a new paragraph (f) to read as follows:
   (F) IF THE LOCATION OF AN EARLY VOTING  POLLING  PLACE  AS  DESIGNATED
 PURSUANT  TO  PARAGRAPH  (E)  OF  THIS SUBDIVISION CHANGES PRIOR TO SUCH
 EARLY VOTING PERIOD, NOTICE SHALL BE PROVIDED TO ALL  AFFECTED  ELIGIBLE
 VOTERS NO LATER THAN FIVE DAYS PRIOR TO SUCH VOTING PERIOD IN ACCORDANCE
 WITH  THE COMMUNICATION PLAN ESTABLISHED PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION FIVE OF
 THIS SECTION OR AS SOON AS PRACTICABLE IF SUCH  LOCATION  CHANGE  OCCURS
 WITHIN  FIVE  DAYS  OF  THE  COMMENCEMENT  OF  SUCH EARLY VOTING PERIOD;
 PROVIDED, HOWEVER, NO SUCH LOCATION CHANGE MAY OCCUR WITHIN  FORTY-EIGHT
 HOURS OF SUCH COMMENCEMENT.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13042-01-1

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