Assembly Bill A5661

                            
 
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                                  5661--A
                                                         Cal. No. 218
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 14, 2019
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 Introduced  by  M.  of A. ROZIC, PEOPLES-STOKES, BUCHWALD, CAHILL, COOK,
   DINOWITZ, ENGLEBRIGHT,  GALEF,  GOTTFRIED,  JAFFEE,  VANEL,  ABINANTI,
   GRIFFIN,  JACOBSON,  BARRETT,  D'URSO,  REYES,  MOSLEY,  COLTON, CRUZ,
   EPSTEIN -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. GLICK,  LIFTON,  LUPARDO  --
   read  once and referred to the Committee on Election Law -- ordered to
   a third reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place on
   the order of third reading
 
 AN ACT to amend the election law,  in  relation  to  the  boundaries  of
   election districts and the designation of polling places
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 4-104 of the election law is amended  by  adding  a
 new subdivision 5-a to read as follows:
   5-A.  WHENEVER  A  CONTIGUOUS  PROPERTY  OF  A  COLLEGE  OR UNIVERSITY
 CONTAINS THREE HUNDRED OR MORE  REGISTRANTS  (EXCLUDING  REGISTRANTS  IN
 INACTIVE  STATUS)  WHO  ARE  REGISTERED  TO  VOTE  AT AN ADDRESS ON SUCH
 CONTIGUOUS PROPERTY, THE POLLING PLACE DESIGNATED FOR  SUCH  REGISTRANTS
 SHALL  BE  ON  SUCH CONTIGUOUS PROPERTY OR AT A LOCATION APPROVED BY THE
 COLLEGE OR UNIVERSITY.
   § 2. Paragraph a of subdivision 3 of section  4-100  of  the  election
 law,  as  amended by chapter 659 of the laws of 1994, is amended to read
 as follows:
   a. Each election district shall be in compact  form  and  may  not  be
 partly within and partly without a ward, town, city, a village which has
 five  thousand  or  more  inhabitants and is wholly within one town, THE
 CONTIGUOUS PROPERTY OF A COLLEGE  OR  UNIVERSITY  WHICH  CONTAINS  THREE
 HUNDRED  OR  MORE REGISTRANTS (EXCLUDING REGISTRANTS IN INACTIVE STATUS)
 WHO ARE REGISTERED TO VOTE AT AN ADDRESS ON SUCH CONTIGUOUS PROPERTY, or
 a county legislative, assembly, senatorial  or  congressional  district.
 Except as provided in paragraph b of this subdivision, election district
 boundaries,  other  than those boundaries which are coterminous with the
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
              

                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01288-02-9

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 boundaries of those political subdivisions  AND  COLLEGE  OR  UNIVERSITY
 PROPERTIES  mentioned  in this paragraph, must be streets, rivers, rail-
 road lines or other permanent characteristics of the landscape which are
 clearly  visible  to any person without the need to use any technical or
 mechanical device. An election district shall contain not more than nine
 hundred fifty registrants (excluding registrants in inactive status) or,
 with the approval of the county board of elections, not more than eleven
 hundred fifty registrants (excluding registrants  in  inactive  status),
 but  any  election  district  may  be divided for the convenience of the
 voters.
   § 3. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 2 of section 8-600 of  the  election
 law,  as  added  by chapter 6 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as
 follows:
   (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 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
 thousand  voters  shall  have  at  least one early voting polling place.
 WHENEVER A CONTIGUOUS PROPERTY OF A COLLEGE OR UNIVERSITY CONTAINS THREE
 HUNDRED OR MORE REGISTRANTS (EXCLUDING REGISTRANTS IN  INACTIVE  STATUS)
 WHO  ARE  REGISTERED  TO VOTE AT AN ADDRESS ON SUCH CONTIGUOUS PROPERTY,
 SUCH CONTIGUOUS PROPERTY OR  A  LOCATION  APPROVED  BY  THE  COLLEGE  OR
 UNIVERSITY SHALL BE DESIGNATED AS AN EARLY VOTING POLLING PLACE.
   § 4.  This act shall take effect January 1, 2022.