| Date of Action |
Assembly Actions -
Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE |
|---|---|
| Jan 08, 2020 |
referred to elections |
| Sep 20, 2019 |
referred to rules |
Senate Bill S6735
2019-2020 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(D) 20th Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Elections Committee
Actions
co-Sponsors
(D, WF) Senate District
(D, WF) 37th Senate District
(D) 42nd Senate District
2019-S6735 (ACTIVE) - Details
2019-S6735 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER: S6735
SPONSOR: MYRIE
TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the election law, in relation to
empowering the commissioner of a board of elections to order a voting
machine audit upon a finding of discrepancies
PURPOSE:
To allow either commissioner of a board of elections to order that an
escalated audit be conducted whenever a discrepancy exists between an
audit and the machine vote tallies for an election result.
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
Section 1 amends subdivision 3 of section 9-211 of the election law, to
allow either commissioner of a board of elections to order an escalated
audit when discrepancy exists between audit tallies and the voting
machine tallies, requiring a further audit.
Section 2 establishes an immediate effective date.
2019-S6735 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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6735
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
September 20, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. MYRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to empowering the commis-
sioner of a board of elections to order a voting machine audit upon a
finding of discrepancies
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 9-211 of the election law, as
amended by chapter 515 of the laws of 2015, is amended to read as
follows:
3. The state board of elections shall, in accordance with subdivision
four of section 3-100 of this chapter, promulgate regulations establish-
ing a uniform statewide standard to be used by boards of elections to
determine when a discrepancy between the audit tallies and the voting
machine or system tallies shall require a further voter verifiable
record audit of additional voting machines or systems or a complete
audit of all machines or systems within the jurisdiction of a board of
elections. Any COMMISSIONER OF A board of elections shall be empowered
to order that any such audit shall be conducted whenever any such
discrepancy exists.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD13204-02-9
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