Assembly Bill A10346

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to authorizing a longer period for early voting and designating early voting polling places for a lesser increment of registered voters

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2019-A10346 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Election Law
Law Section:
Election Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §8-600, El L
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
A6690

2019-A10346 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes early voting to be available for forty-nine days before an election and designates at least one early voting polling place for every full increment of twenty-five thousand registered voters.

2019-A10346 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10346
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              April 29, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. FRONTUS -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Election Law
 
 AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to  authorizing  a  longer
   period  for  early  voting and designating early voting polling places
   for a lesser increment of registered voters
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 1 and paragraph (a) of subdivision 2 of section
 8-600  of  the  election law, as added by chapter 6 of the laws of 2019,
 are amended to read as follows:
   1. Beginning the [tenth] FORTY-NINTH day prior to any general,  prima-
 ry, run-off primary pursuant to subdivision one of section 6-162 of this
 chapter  or special election for any public or party position except for
 such an election held pursuant to title two of article  six  or  article
 fifteen  of  this  chapter,  and  ending on and including the second day
 prior to such general, primary, run-off primary or special election  for
 such public office or party position, persons duly registered and eligi-
 ble  to  vote at such election shall be permitted to vote as provided in
 this title. The board of elections shall establish  procedures,  subject
 to  approval of the state board of elections, to ensure that persons who
 vote during the early voting period  shall  not  be  permitted  to  vote
 subsequently in the same election.
   (a)  The  board  of elections shall designate polling places for early
 voting, which may include the offices of the  board  of  elections,  for
 persons  to  vote early pursuant to this title. There shall be so desig-
 nated at least one early voting polling place for every  full  increment
 of  [fifty]  TWENTY-FIVE  thousand  registered  voters  in  each county;
 provided, however, the number of early voting polling places in a county
 shall not be required to be greater than seven, and a county with  fewer
 than  [fifty]  TWENTY-FIVE thousand voters shall have at least one early
 voting polling place.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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