S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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7975
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
May 23, 2017
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Introduced by M. of A. DE LA ROSA -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Election Law
AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to automatic dialing-an-
nouncing device call notification of a change in location of a polling
place
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 4-104 of the election law is
amended to read as follows:
2. If the board of elections, after designating a polling place, and
after sending written notice of such polling place to each registered
voter, designates an alternative polling place, it must, at least five
days before the next election or day for registration, send by mail a
written notice AND CALL BY AUTOMATIC DIALING-ANNOUNCING DEVICE to each
registered voter notifying him of the changed location of such polling
place. If such notice is not possible the board of elections must
provide for an alternative form of notice to be given to voters at the
location of the previous polling place.
§ 2. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 5 of section 4-104 of the election
law, as amended by chapter 95 of the laws of 1995, is amended to read as
follows:
(a) Whenever the number of voters eligible to vote in an election in
any election district is less than one hundred, the polling place desig-
nated for such district may be the polling place of any other district
which could properly be designated as the polling place of the first
mentioned district pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, except
that the polling place designated for any such district may be the poll-
ing place of any other district in such city or town provided that the
distance from such first mentioned district to the polling place for
such other district is not unreasonable pursuant to rules or regulations
prescribed by the state board of elections and provided that the total
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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number of persons eligible to vote in such other district in such
election, including the persons eligible to vote in such first mentioned
districts, is not more than five hundred. The inspectors of election and
poll clerks, if any, of such other election district shall also act in
all respects as the election officers for such first mentioned districts
and no other inspectors shall be appointed to serve in or for such first
mentioned districts. A separate poll ledger or computer generated regis-
tration list, separate voting machine or ballots and separate canvass of
results shall be provided for such first mentioned districts, except
that if the candidates and ballot proposals to be voted on by the voters
of such districts are the same, the election districts shall be combined
and shall constitute a single election district for that election. If
the polling place for any election district is moved for any election,
pursuant to the provisions of this subdivision, the board of elections
shall, not later than ten nor more than fifteen days before such
election, mail, by first class mail, to each voter eligible to vote in
such election district at such election, a notice setting forth the
location of the polling place for such election and specifying that such
location is for such election only AND CALL, BY AUTOMATIC DIALING-AN-
NOUNCING DEVICE, ANY VOTER THAT HAS SUPPLIED THE BOARD WITH A PHONE
NUMBER.
§ 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
have become a law.