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Assembly Bill A10724

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to absentee ballot tracking

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2019-A10724 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S2768
Current Committee:
Assembly Election Law
Law Section:
Election Law
Laws Affected:
Add §8-414, El L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: S5416
2017-2018: S5184
2021-2022: A4186, S506, S6395

2019-A10724 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the boards of elections to provide a secure website through which voters can track their absentee ballot from the moment the local board of elections receives the request for a ballot until the moment the vote is counted.

2019-A10724 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10724
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               July 1, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Dinowitz) --
   read once and referred to the Committee on Election Law
 
 AN  ACT to amend the election law, in relation to absentee ballot track-
   ing
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  The election law is amended by adding a new section 8-414
 to read as follows:
   § 8-414. ABSENTEE BALLOT TRACKING. THE STATE BOARD OF ELECTIONS  SHALL
 ASSIST COUNTY BOARDS AND THE NEW YORK CITY BOARD OF ELECTIONS TO PROVIDE
 A SECURE WEBSITE THROUGH WHICH ANY REGISTERED VOTER WHO HAS SUBMITTED AN
 APPLICATION  FOR  AN  ABSENTEE  BALLOT,  OR WHO OTHERWISE HAS A RIGHT TO
 RECEIVE AN ABSENTEE BALLOT, FOR AN UPCOMING ELECTION  PURSUANT  TO  THIS
 CHAPTER  MAY  VIEW  THE CURRENT STATUS OF THEIR ABSENTEE APPLICATION AND
 ABSENTEE BALLOT. SUCH WEBSITE SHALL  NOT  REQUIRE  USERS  TO  CREATE  AN
 ACCOUNT.  SUCH  WEBSITE  SHALL  INDICATE FOR EACH SUCH VOTER WHETHER THE
 COUNTY OR NEW YORK CITY BOARD OF ELECTIONS HAS:
   1. RECEIVED SUCH VOTER'S REQUEST FOR AN ABSENTEE BALLOT,  IF  APPLICA-
 BLE;
   2. APPROVED OR REJECTED SUCH REQUEST, IF APPLICABLE, AND, IF REJECTED,
 A BRIEF STATEMENT OF THE REASON FOR REJECTION;
   3.  MAILED  OR  DELIVERED  AN  ABSENTEE  BALLOT TO SUCH VOTER FOR SUCH
 UPCOMING ELECTION;
   4. RECEIVED SUCH VOTER'S COMPLETED ABSENTEE BALLOT FOR  SUCH  UPCOMING
 ELECTION; AND
   5. COUNTED OR REJECTED SUCH VOTER'S COMPLETED ABSENTEE BALLOT FOR SUCH
 UPCOMING ELECTION, AND, IF REJECTED, A BRIEF STATEMENT OF THE REASON FOR
 REJECTION.
   § 2. This act shall be subject to appropriations required to cover the
 costs to develop and maintain the website.
   § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
 it shall have become a law.

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD03028-01-9

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