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                                 7072--A

                            I N  S E N A T E

                             March 22, 2016
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Introduced  by  Sen.  AKSHAR -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Elections  --  committee
  discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
  to said committee

AN  ACT  to amend the election law, in relation to increasing the number
  of registrants an election district may contain with the  approval  of
  the county board of elections; authorizes increase of county committee

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

  Section 1. Paragraph a of  subdivision  3  of  section  4-100  of  the
election  law, as amended by chapter 659 of the laws of 1994, is amended
to read as follows:
  a. Each election district shall be in compact  form  and  may  not  be
partly within and partly without a ward, town, city, a village which has
five  thousand  or  more inhabitants and is wholly within one town, or a
county legislative,  assembly,  senatorial  or  congressional  district.
Except as provided in paragraph b of this subdivision, election district
boundaries,  other  than those boundaries which are coterminous with the
boundaries of those political subdivisions mentioned in this  paragraph,
must  be  streets,  rivers, railroad lines or other permanent character-
istics of the landscape which are clearly visible to any person  without
the need to use any technical or mechanical device. An election district
shall  contain  not  more than nine hundred fifty registrants (excluding
registrants in inactive status) or, with  the  approval  of  the  county
board  of  elections,  not more than [eleven hundred fifty] TWO THOUSAND
registrants (excluding registrants in inactive status), but any election
district may be divided for the convenience of the voters.
  S 2. Subdivision 1 of section 2-104 of the election law, as amended by
chapter 659 of the laws of 1994, is amended to read as follows:
  1. The county committee of each party  shall  be  constituted  by  the
election  in  each  election district within such county of at least two
members and of such additional members[, not in excess of two,]  as  the
rules  of  the  county  committee  of the party within the county or the
statement filed pursuant hereto may provide for such  district,  propor-

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

                                                           LBD08027-04-6

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tional  to  the  party  vote  in  the  district for governor at the last
preceding gubernatorial election, or in  case  the  boundaries  of  such
district  have been changed or a new district has been created since the
last  preceding  gubernatorial  election, proportional to the party vote
cast for member of assembly or in the event there was  no  election  for
member  of  assembly, then proportional to the number of enrolled voters
of such party in such district on  the  list  of  enrolled  voters  last
published  by  the  board  of  elections,  excluding  voters in inactive
status. In a county in which no additional members are provided  for  by
the rules of the county committee or the statement filed pursuant hereto
the  voting  power  of  each member shall be in proportion to such party
vote or, if the election  district  which  such  member  represents  was
created  or  changed  since  the  last  election for member of assembly,
proportional to such party enrollment. In a county in  which  additional
members  are  so provided for, on the basis of the party vote or enroll-
ment in election districts within such county, each  member  shall  have
one  vote.  Each member of a county committee shall be an enrolled voter
of the party residing in the county and the assembly district from which
or in the assembly district containing the election  district  in  which
such  member  is elected except that a member of a county committee who,
as a result of an alteration  of  assembly  district  lines,  no  longer
resides  within  such  assembly  district  may continue to serve for the
balance of the term to which he was elected.
  S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.