Relates to moving the date of the presidential primary to June 23, 2020; permits absentee voting in the event of an imminent, impending or urgent threat resulting from a disease outbreak; removes certain presidential candidates and their delegates from primary ballot where the candidate has suspended their campaigns or removed themselves from consideration for election to such office.
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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I N A S S E M B L Y
March 27, 2020
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Introduced by M. of A. DINOWITZ -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Election Law
AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to moving the date of the
presidential primary; permitting absentee voting in the event of an
imminent, impending or urgent threat resulting from a disease
outbreak; removing certain presidential candidates and their delegates
from primary ballots; and providing for the repeal of certain
provisions upon the expiration thereof
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 8-100 of the
election law, as amended by chapter 290 of the laws of 2019, is amended
to read as follows:
(a) A primary election shall be held on the fourth Tuesday in June
before every general election unless otherwise changed by an act of the
legislature. Members of the state and county committees and assembly
district leaders and associate district leaders and all other party
positions to be elected shall be elected at such primary and all nomi-
nations for public office required to be made at a primary election in
such year shall be made at such primary. In the year two thousand twenty
in which electors of president and vice president of the United States
are to be elected an additional primary election, to be known as the
presidential primary, shall be held on [April twenty-eight] JUNE TWEN-
TY-THIRD, two thousand twenty unless otherwise changed by an act of the
legislature, for the purpose of electing delegates and alternate deleg-
ates to the national convention.
§ 2. Subdivision 1 of section 8-400 of the election law, as amended by
chapter 63 of the laws of 2010 and paragraph (c) as amended by chapter
375 of the laws of 2015, is amended to read as follows:
1. A qualified voter may vote as an absentee voter under this chapter
if, on the occurrence of any village election conducted by the board of
elections, primary election, special election, general election or New
York city community school board district or city of Buffalo school
district election, he or she expects to be:
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
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