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                                   6479
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               March 7, 2019
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 Introduced by M. of A. BUCHWALD -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Election Law
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend the election law, in relation to allowing for polling
   place voter registration for any qualified person who  is  not  regis-
   tered to vote
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 5-210 of the election law is amended  by  adding  a
 new subdivision 1-a to read as follows:
   1-A.  (A) NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF THIS ARTICLE RELATING
 TO REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS, ANY QUALIFIED PERSON WHO IS NOT REGISTERED
 IN THIS STATE MAY APPLY PERSONALLY FOR REGISTRATION  AND  ENROLLMENT  BY
 APPEARING  AT THE APPROPRIATE POLLING PLACE FOR THE ELECTION DISTRICT IN
 WHICH HE OR SHE RESIDES ON THE DAY OF ANY PRIMARY,  GENERAL  OR  SPECIAL
 ELECTION DURING THE HOURS THAT SUCH POLLING PLACE IS OPEN FOR VOTING. TO
 BE  ELIGIBLE  TO  REGISTER  PURSUANT  TO THIS SUBDIVISION, A PERSON MUST
 PROVIDE ACCEPTABLE FORMS OF IDENTIFICATION  CONTAINING  PROOF  OF  RESI-
 DENCE,  AS  DETERMINED BY STATE LAW IMPLEMENTING THE HELP AMERICANS VOTE
 ACT OF 2002 (PUBLIC LAW 107-252). ANY PERSON WHO SO  REGISTERS  TO  VOTE
 SHALL  EXECUTE  THE  FOLLOWING INSTRUMENT IN SUBSTANTIALLY THE FOLLOWING
 FORM:
   "I, (NAME), DO HEREBY CERTIFY, UNDER PENALTY OF PERJURY, THAT, TO  THE
 BEST  OF  MY KNOWLEDGE, I AM A QUALIFIED VOTER, HAVING RESIDED AT (PLACE
 OF RESIDENCE) FOR  AT  LEAST  THIRTY  DAYS  IMMEDIATELY  PRECEDING  THIS
 ELECTION,  THAT  I  AM NOT DISQUALIFIED ON ANY LEGAL GROUNDS FROM VOTING
 AND THAT I HAVE NOT ALREADY VOTED AT THIS ELECTION."
   (B) IF A REGISTRANT IS UNABLE TO PROVIDE VALID PROOF OF  RESIDENCE  AS
 REQUIRED  BY  PARAGRAPH  (A) OF THIS SUBDIVISION, SUCH REGISTRANT MAY BE
 ALLOWED TO REGISTER FOR AND VOTE IN ANY ELECTION  BY  AFFIDAVIT  BALLOT.
 SUCH  AFFIDAVIT BALLOT SHALL NOT BE COUNTED UNTIL ELECTION OFFICIALS CAN
 DETERMINE SUCH REGISTRANT'S RESIDENCE AND ELIGIBILITY TO VOTE.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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   (C) THE BOARD OF ELECTIONS SHALL ESTABLISH  A  PROCEDURE  BY  WHICH  A
 PERSON  WHO  REGISTERS  PURSUANT TO THIS SUBDIVISION MAY CAST HIS OR HER
 VOTE AT THE APPROPRIATE POLLING PLACE.
   §  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect on the same date and in the same
 manner as a concurrent resolution amending  the  constitution,  entitled
 "CONCURRENT  RESOLUTION OF THE SENATE AND ASSEMBLY" proposing amendments
 to section 5 of article 2 of the constitution, in relation  to  the  ten
 day  advance  registration requirement, as proposed by legislative bills
 numbers S.1048 and A.777 of 2019.