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                                   4022
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 30, 2025
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 Introduced  by M. of A. SIMPSON -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Election Law
 
 AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to  requiring  the  county
   seat  in  Warren  county to have at least one polling place designated
   for early voting
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Paragraph  (b)  of  subdivision 2 of section 8-600 of the
 election law, as amended by chapter 781 of the laws of 2021, is  amended
 to read as follows:
   (b)  The  largest  city  in  the county or, if there is no city in the
 county, the municipality with the  highest  population  in  each  county
 based  on  the  latest  federal  decennial census, or the county seat in
 Washington county, OR THE COUNTY SEAT IN WARREN COUNTY,  shall  have  at
 least  one  polling place designated for early voting, and to the extent
 practicable if such  city  or  municipality  has  public  transportation
 routes,  such  polling place shall be situated along such transportation
 routes.
   § 2. This act shall take effect April 1, 2026 and shall apply  to  any
 general, primary, run-off primary, or special election held thereafter.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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