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Senate Bill S5973

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to automatic dialing-announcing device call notification of a change in location of a polling place

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2017-S5973 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A7975
Current Committee:
Senate Elections
Law Section:
Election Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §4-104, El L
Versions Introduced in 2019-2020 Legislative Session:
S3188

2017-S5973 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to automatic dialing-announcing device call notification of a change in location of a polling place.

2017-S5973 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S5973 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5973
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                May 9, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. KENNEDY -- 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  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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