Bill Text: NY A03427 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to registration to vote.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to election law [A03427 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A03427-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3427 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 29, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ZEBROWSKI, JAFFEE, GALEF, ABINANTI -- Multi-Spon- sored 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. LBD06327-01-9