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Assembly Bill A10843

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to directing the board of elections to canvass certain absentee ballots for elections held June 23, 2020

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2019-A10843 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Election Law
Law Section:
Elections

2019-A10843 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Directs the board of elections to canvass certain absentee ballots for elections held June 23, 2020, establishes a presumption that any absentee ballot received between June 23, 2020 and June 30, 2020 that does not bear or display a dated postmark was timely mailed and delivered.

2019-A10843 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10843
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               July 24, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Simon) --
   read once and referred to the Committee on Election Law
 
 AN ACT directing the board of  elections  to  canvass  certain  absentee
   ballots for elections held June 23, 2020
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Notwithstanding any provision of law to  the  contrary,  an
 absentee ballot for any election held June 23, 2020, received by a board
 of  elections between June 23, 2020 and June 30, 2020 that does not bear
 or display a dated postmark shall be presumed to have been timely mailed
 or delivered, and shall be canvassed by such board for such election.
   ยง 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD16951-01-0

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