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Senate Bill S2785

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Provides that election workers shall be given special ballots any time up until the close of polls on election day

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2017-S2785 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Elections
Law Section:
Election Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §11-302, El L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: S4269
2015-2016: S5399, S7077

2017-S2785 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that election workers shall be given special ballots any time up until the close of polls on election day.

2017-S2785 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S2785 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2785
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 17, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  AKSHAR -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Elections
 
 AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation  to  special  ballots  for
   board of elections employees
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 11-302 of the election law, as amended  by  chapter
 163 of the laws of 2010, is amended to read as follows:
   §  11-302.  Special  ballots for board of election employees. A person
 who is an employee of the board of elections or who has  been  appointed
 to  serve as an inspector of elections, poll clerk or election coordina-
 tor at a polling place other than the one at which he or she  is  regis-
 tered to vote, may deliver to the inspectors of election of the election
 district in which he or she is registered, or to the board of elections,
 at  any  time  during the period in which an application for an absentee
 ballot may be so delivered pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, a
 written statement that he or she will be unable to appear at the polling
 place for such election district on the day of an election  because  his
 or  her  duties  as  an  employee of such board or as an inspector, poll
 clerk or election coordinator require him or her to  be  elsewhere.  The
 board of elections shall provide such voter a special ballot [not earli-
 er than two weeks before the election and not later than] ANY TIME PRIOR
 TO  the close of the polls on election day AND MAKE BALLOTS AVAILABLE AT
 THE BOARD OF ELECTIONS OR AT ANY TRAINING SESSIONS FOR ELECTION  EMPLOY-
 EES  AND APPOINTEES, PROVIDED HOWEVER THAT THE AVAILABILITY AND DISTRIB-
 UTION OF SUCH BALLOTS TO SUCH VOTERS  SHALL  BE  TIMED  TO  AFFORD  SUCH
 VOTERS  SUFFICIENT  TIME  TO CAST SUCH BALLOTS PRIOR TO THE CLOSE OF THE
 POLLS ON ELECTION DAY.  Such [cast ballots may be delivered to an office
 of such board of elections or to any board of inspectors not later  than
 the  close  of  the polls on election day] BALLOTS SHALL BE VOTED IN THE
 OFFICES OF THE BOARD OF ELECTIONS, AND RETURNED TO THE BOARD ON THE  DAY
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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