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Assembly Bill A7622

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Authorizes any voter at least sixty-two years of age to request an absentee ballot and vote absentee

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2017-A7622 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Election Law
Law Section:
Election Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §8-400, El L

2017-A7622 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes any qualified voter at least sixty-two years of age to request an absentee ballot and vote absentee.

2017-A7622 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7622
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                May 5, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. ABINANTI -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Election Law
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the election law, in relation to authorizing any voter
   at least sixty-two years of age to request an absentee ballot
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  4  of  section 8-400 of the election law, as
 amended by chapter 63 of the  laws  of  2010,  is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   4.  A voter who claims permanent illness [or], physical disability, OR
 ANY VOTER AT LEAST SIXTY-TWO YEARS OF AGE may make  application  for  an
 absentee  ballot  and  the  right to receive an absentee ballot for each
 election thereafter as provided herein without further  application,  by
 filing  with the board of elections an application which shall contain a
 statement to be executed by the voter. Upon filing of  such  application
 the board of elections shall cause the registration records of the voter
 to  be  marked  "Permanently  Disabled" OR "SENIOR" and thereafter shall
 send an absentee ballot for each succeeding primary, special or  general
 election  to  such voter at his or her last known address by first class
 mail with a request to the postal authorities not to forward such ballot
 but to return it in five days in the event that it cannot  be  delivered
 to  the  addressee.  The  mailing of such ballot for each election shall
 continue until such voter's registration is cancelled.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on  the  same  date  as  a  concurrent
 resolution  entitled  "CONCURRENT  RESOLUTION OF THE SENATE AND ASSEMBLY
 proposing an amendment to section 2 of article 2 of the constitution, in
 relation to authorizing ballot by mail by removing  cause  for  absentee
 ballot  voting",  as  proposed  in  legislative  bills numbers S.840 and
 A.7363, take effect.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11310-01-7

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