BILL NUMBER:A10477
TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the election law, in relation to determinations by coun-
ty canvassing boards
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:
This bill would provide mandate relief to counties by eliminating the
requirement that boards of elections publish the results of an election
in the newspaper.
SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:
Section 1 of the bill amends subdivisions 2 and 3 of election law
9-212 to eliminate the requirement that boards of elections publish the
results of an election in the newspaper.
Section 2 of the bill is the effective date.
JUSTIFICATION:
Election law § 9-212 requires only some local boards of elections to
publish election results in a newspaper while exempting other local
boards of elections from this requirement. Specifically, the boards of
elections in the city of New York and in Nassau, Orange and Westchester
counties do not have to publish election results. This unfunded mandate
imposes a financial hardship on some counties but not others. Given the
wide use of the internet by boards of elections, and the common practice
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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10477
I N A S S E M B L Y
April 2, 2010
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Introduced by M. of A. MILLMAN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Election Law
AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to determinations by coun-
ty canvassing boards
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Subdivisions 2 and 3 of section 9-212 of the election law,
as amended by chapter 635 of the laws of 1990, are amended to read as
follows:
2. All such determinations shall be in writing and signed by the
members of the canvassing board or a majority of them and filed and
recorded in the office of the board of elections. [Except in the city of
New York and in the counties of Nassau, Orange and Westchester, the
board of elections shall cause a copy of such determinations, and of the
statements filed in its office upon which such determinations were
based, to be published once in each of the newspapers designated to
publish election notices and the official canvass. The statement of
canvass to be published, however, shall not give the vote by election
districts but shall contain only the total vote for a person, or the
total vote for and the total vote against a ballot proposal, cast within
the county, or within the portion thereof, if any, in which an office is
filled or ballot proposal is decided by the voters if the canvass of the
vote thereon devolves upon the county board of canvassers.] Such totals
shall be expressed in arabic numerals.
3. The board of elections shall prepare and forthwith transmit to each
person determined by the canvassing board to have been elected a certi-
fied statement, naming the office to which such canvassing board has
declared him OR HER elected.
S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD16727-01-0
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