Bill Text: NY A01489 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to registration to vote.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to election law [A01489 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A01489-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1489
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 12, 2017
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        Introduced  by  M.  of A. ZEBROWSKI, JAFFEE, GALEF, SKOUFIS, ABINANTI --
          Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BUCHWALD -- read once and  referred  to
          the Committee on Election Law
        AN ACT to amend the town law, in relation to registration to vote
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section 84 of the town law, as amended  by
     2  chapter  281  of the laws of 1998, is amended and a new subdivision 7 is
     3  added to read as follows:
     4    5. In order to assist boards of registration  in  the  preparation  of
     5  their  registers,  the  town  clerk,  prior to the first meeting of such
     6  boards of registration, shall obtain from the board of elections of  the
     7  county in which such town is located, the list of names and addresses of
     8  all  voters  registered  with  such  board of elections on or before the
     9  [twenty-third] tenth day before such special election.  The  town  clerk
    10  shall  deliver the names and addresses of qualified voters to the appro-
    11  priate board or boards of registration on or before the first meeting of
    12  such board or boards. At the first and subsequent meetings of the  board
    13  of  registration  for each voting place designated by the town board for
    14  such special town election, such board of registration  shall  place  on
    15  the register described in subdivision four hereof the names of all qual-
    16  ified  voters  and all other qualified voters who personally appear, and
    17  those military voters and such other voters who are absent by reason  of
    18  confining  illness or physical disability or whose duties, occupation or
    19  business required them to be outside of the state of  New  York,  having
    20  the  qualifications  of  voters  prescribed in this section and who have
    21  made application for absentee ballots as certified to them by  the  town
    22  clerk.
    23    7. In the event a town board does not elect to provide personal regis-
    24  tration for a special town election, no person shall be entitled to vote
    25  unless  they  are  registered to vote with the board of elections on the
    26  tenth day before such election.
    27    § 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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