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Assembly Bill A2398

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Prohibits the use of punch-card ballots and punch-card ballot counting machines

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2009-A2398 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Election Law
Law Section:
Election Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง7-121, El L

2009-A2398 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits the use of punch-card ballots and punch-card ballot counting machines.

2009-A2398 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  2398

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 15, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by M. of A. GANTT -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Election Law

AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to prohibiting the use  of
  punch-card ballots and punch-card ballot counting machines in New York
  state

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

  Section 1. Section 7-121 of the election law, as added by chapter  352
of the laws of 1986, is amended to read as follows:
  S  7-121.  Ballots  which are counted by machine. A board of elections
may provide, by  resolution  adopted  at  least  two  months  before  an
election  at  which  voting machines are used, that all ballots cast for
such election, other than on the voting machines, shall be counted by  a
machine  of a type approved by the state board of elections and that all
ballots printed for use at such election may be printed and arranged  in
a  manner  which  would  permit  them  to  be  counted  by such machine,
PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT  NO  PUNCH-CARD  BALLOTS  OR  PUNCH-CARD  BALLOT
COUNTING MACHINES SHALL BE PERMITTED BY ANY BOARD OF ELECTIONS.
  S  2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
ing the date on which it shall have become a law.




 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD05661-01-9

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