Bill Text: NY A01320 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Provides that if the board of elections determines that a person was entitled to vote it shall cast and canvass such ballot if such board finds that the voter substantially complied with the requirements of the election law; failure to provide previous address not deemed a fatal defect and ballot cast and counted.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)

Status: (Passed) 2019-12-20 - approval memo.64 [A01320 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A01320-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         1320--A

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 14, 2019
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        Introduced  by M. of A. CAHILL -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ARROYO,
          COOK, GOTTFRIED, RIVERA -- read once and referred to the Committee  on
          Election  Law -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted
          as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to canvass of ballots cast
          by certain voters

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  (a)  of  subdivision 2 of section 9-209 of the
     2  election law is amended by adding two new subparagraphs (v) and (vi)  to
     3  read as follows:
     4    (v) If the board of elections determines that a person was entitled to
     5  vote  at  such election, the board shall cast and canvass such ballot if
     6  such board finds that the voter substantially complied with the require-
     7  ments of this chapter.
     8    (vi) If the board of elections finds that the statewide  voter  regis-
     9  tration  list supplies sufficient information to identify a voter, fail-
    10  ure by the voter to include on the envelope the address where such voter
    11  was previously registered shall not be a  fatal  defect  and  the  board
    12  shall cast and canvass such ballot.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02909-05-9