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Assembly Bill A8126

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Warns voters about New York's closed primary system on voter registration forms

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2025-A8126 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S3596
Law Section:
Election Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §5-210, El L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A5735
2019-2020: A3504
2021-2022: A908
2023-2024: S3465

2025-A8126 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides voters with a warning about New York's closed primary system on voter registration forms.

2025-A8126 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8126
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                May 1, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. MAMDANI -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Election Law
 
 AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to notifying  voters  that
   New York practices a closed primary system
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Paragraph (f) of subdivision 5  of  section  5-210  of  the
 election  law, as amended by chapter 113 of the laws of 2023, is amended
 to read as follows:
   (f) Notice [that political] IN BOLD AND PROMINENT TYPE, STATING:  "THE
 STATE  OF  NEW  YORK  PRACTICES A CLOSED PARTY PRIMARY SYSTEM. POLITICAL
 party enrollment is optional, but [that,] in order to vote in a  primary
 election  of  a  political  party, a voter must enroll in that political
 party, unless state party rules allow [otherwise] OTHERWISE".
   § 2. This act shall take effect 2 years after it shall have  become  a
 law.
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD07065-03-5

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