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                                   7478
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 10, 2021
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 Introduced by M. of A. CUSICK, JACOBSON -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Election Law
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the election law, in relation to increasing the number
   of registrants an election district may contain with the  approval  of
   the county board of elections; authorizes increase of county committee

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. 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, 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
 boundaries of those political subdivisions mentioned in this  paragraph,
 must  be  streets,  rivers, railroad lines or other permanent character-
 istics 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] TWO THOUSAND
 registrants (excluding registrants in inactive status), but any election
 district may be divided for the convenience of the voters.
   § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 2-104 of the election law, as amended by
 chapter 659 of the laws of 1994, is amended to read as follows:
   1. The county committee of each party  shall  be  constituted  by  the
 election  in  each  election district within such county of at least two
 members and of such additional members[, not in excess of two,]  as  the
 rules  of  the  county  committee  of the party within the county or the
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

                                                            LBD11267-01-1

 A. 7478                             2
 
 statement filed pursuant hereto may provide for such  district,  propor-
 tional  to  the  party  vote  in  the  district for governor at the last
 preceding gubernatorial election, or in  case  the  boundaries  of  such
 district  have been changed or a new district has been created since the
 last preceding gubernatorial election, proportional to  the  party  vote
 cast  for  member  of assembly or in the event there was no election for
 member of assembly, then proportional to the number of  enrolled  voters
 of  such  party  in  such  district  on the list of enrolled voters last
 published by the  board  of  elections,  excluding  voters  in  inactive
 status.  In  a county in which no additional members are provided for by
 the rules of the county committee or the statement filed pursuant hereto
 the voting power of each member shall be in  proportion  to  such  party
 vote  or,  if  the  election  district  which such member represents was
 created or changed since the  last  election  for  member  of  assembly,
 proportional  to  such party enrollment. In a county in which additional
 members are so provided for, on the basis of the party vote  or  enroll-
 ment  in  election  districts within such county, each member shall have
 one vote. Each member of a county committee shall be an  enrolled  voter
 of the party residing in the county and the assembly district from which
 or  in  the  assembly district containing the election district in which
 such member is elected except that a member of a county  committee  who,
 as  a  result  of  an  alteration  of assembly district lines, no longer
 resides within such assembly district may  continue  to  serve  for  the
 balance of the term to which he was elected.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.