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Assembly Bill A5802

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to the number of polling sites for early voting in certain counties

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2021-A5802 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S5176
Current Committee:
Assembly Election Law
Law Section:
Election Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §8-600, El L
Versions Introduced in 2019-2020 Legislative Session:
A11011, S8953

2021-A5802 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires counties with a population of one million or more to have at least one polling place in each town and city of such counties.

2021-A5802 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
     S. 5176                                                  A. 5802
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                       S E N A T E - A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 25, 2021
                                ___________
 
 IN SENATE -- Introduced by Sen. PALUMBO -- read twice and ordered print-
   ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Elections
 
 IN  ASSEMBLY  -- Introduced by M. of A. THIELE -- read once and referred
   to the Committee on Election Law
 
 AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to the number  of  polling
   sites for early voting in certain counties
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 2  of  section  8-600  of  the
 election  law, as amended by chapter 344 of the laws of 2020, 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;  provided,  however,  that
 the municipality with the highest population in each county based on the
 latest  federal  decennial  census shall have at least one polling place
 designated for early voting, and to the extent practicable if such muni-
 cipality has public transportation routes, such polling place  shall  be
 situated  along such transportation routes. There shall be so designated
 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 ten unless required by any other provision of law,
 and a county with fewer than fifty thousand voters shall have  at  least
 one  early  voting  polling place; AND PROVIDED FURTHER THAT IN COUNTIES
 WITH A POPULATION OF ONE MILLION OR MORE BASED  ON  THE  LATEST  FEDERAL
 DECENNIAL CENSUS, BUT OUTSIDE CITIES WITH A POPULATION OF ONE MILLION OR
 MORE,  BASED  ON THE LATEST FEDERAL DECENNIAL CENSUS, EACH TOWN AND CITY
 IN SUCH COUNTIES SHALL HAVE AT LEAST ONE POLLING PLACE.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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