S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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3549
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
January 27, 2009
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Introduced by M. of A. PERRY, KAVANAGH -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
HOOPER, HOYT, ORTIZ, SCARBOROUGH, WRIGHT -- read once and referred to
the Committee on Election Law
AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to the notice of the days
and hours for voting in primary and general elections
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 4-117 of the election law, as
amended by chapter 659 of the laws of 1994, is amended to read as
follows:
1. The board of elections, not less than sixty-five days nor more
than seventy days before the day of the general election in each year,
shall send by first class mail on which is endorsed "ADDRESS CORRECTION
REQUESTED" and which contains a request that any such mail received for
persons not residing at the address be dropped back in the mail, a
communication, in a form approved by the state board of elections, to
every registered voter who has been registered without a change of
address since the beginning of such year, except that the board of
elections shall not be required to send such communications to voters in
inactive status. The communication shall notify the voter IN BOLD PRINT
OF AT LEAST SIXTEEN POINT FONT CONTAINED IN SUCH NOTICE of the days and
hours of the ensuing primary and general elections, the place where he
appears by his registration records to be entitled to vote, AND ALSO IN
OTHER THAN BOLD TYPE OF the fact that voters who have moved or will have
moved from the address where they were last registered must re-register
or, that if such move was to another address in the same county or city,
that such voter may either notify the board of elections of his new
address or vote by paper ballot at the polling place for his new address
even if such voter has not re-registered, or otherwise notified the
board of elections of the change of address. If the location of the
polling place for the voter's election district has been moved, the
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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communication shall contain the following legend in bold type: "YOUR
POLLING PLACE HAS BEEN CHANGED. YOU NOW VOTE AT..........". The commu-
nication shall also indicate whether the polling place is accessible to
physically disabled voters, that a voter who will be out of the city or
county on the day of the primary or general election or a voter who is
ill or physically disabled may obtain an absentee ballot, that a phys-
ically disabled voter whose polling place is not accessible may request
that his registration record be moved to an election district which has
a polling place which is accessible, the phone number to call for appli-
cations to move a registration record or for absentee ballot applica-
tions, the phone number to call for the location of registration and
polling places, the phone number to call to indicate that the voter is
willing to serve on election day as an election inspector, poll clerk,
interpreter or in other capacities, the phone number to call to obtain
an application for registration by mail, and such other information
concerning the elections or registration as the board may include. In
lieu of sending such communication to every registered voter, the board
of elections may send a single communication to a household containing
more than one registered voter, provided that the names of all such
voters appear as part of the address on such communication.
S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of December next succeed-
ing the date on which it shall have become a law.