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Senate Bill S5268

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to computer generated registration lists and the list of supplies to be delivered to the poll sites

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2017-S5268 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Elections
Law Section:
Election Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §3-108, El L
Versions Introduced in 2015-2016 Legislative Session:
S5417

2017-S5268 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to computer generated registration lists and the list of supplies to be delivered to the poll sites.

2017-S5268 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S5268 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5268
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 17, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  COMRIE -- 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  computer  generated
   registration  lists  and  the  list of supplies to be delivered to the
   poll sites

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Section 3-108 of the election law, subdivision 5 as added
 by chapter 394 of the laws of 2008, is amended to read as follows:
   § 3-108. Disaster; additional day for voting. 1.  A  county  board  of
 elections,  or  the state board of elections with respect to an election
 conducted in a district in the jurisdiction  of  more  than  one  county
 board  of  elections, may determine that, as the direct consequence of a
 fire, earthquake, tornado, explosion, power failure,  act  of  sabotage,
 enemy  attack or other disaster [less than twenty-five per centum of the
 registered voters of any city, town or village, or if the  city  of  New
 York,  or any county therein, actually voted in any general election] OR
 STATE OF EMERGENCY, THE ABILITY OF VOTERS TO VOTE HAS BEEN SUBSTANTIALLY
 IMPAIRED.  Such a determination by a county board of elections shall  be
 subject  to approval by the state board of elections. If the state board
 of elections makes such a determination, it  shall  notify  the  [board]
 BOARDS  of  elections  having  jurisdiction  [in  that county] OVER THAT
 ELECTION that an additional day of election shall be held, which  notice
 shall  show:  the  nature  of  the  disaster;  the county, city, town or
 village affected thereby; the number of persons duly registered to  vote
 therein  at such [general] election; and the number of persons who voted
 therein at such [general] election.
   2. The county board of elections OR THE STATE BOARD OF  ELECTIONS,  AS
 APPLICABLE  shall thereafter set a date for an additional day for voting
 in the county, city, town or village affected by  the  statement,  which
 shall  not  be  more  than  twenty  days  after the original date of the
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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