Bill Text: NY A03483 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes the Westchester county board of elections to merge any election district with 50 or fewer registered voters into an existing election district.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-01-25 - referred to election law [A03483 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A03483-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         3483
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 25, 2011
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       Introduced  by  M. of A. SPANO, PRETLOW, GALEF -- read once and referred
         to the Committee on Election Law
       AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to  the  consolidation  of
         certain election districts in the county of Westchester
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Section 4-100 of the election law is amended  by  adding  a
    2  new subdivision 2-a to read as follows:
    3    2-A.  NOTWITHSTANDING ANY PROVISION OF SUBDIVISION TWO OF THIS SECTION
    4  TO THE CONTRARY, THE BOARD OF ELECTIONS OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER MAY
    5  MERGE ANY ELECTION DISTRICT WITH FIFTY OR FEWER REGISTERED  VOTERS  INTO
    6  AN  EXISTING ELECTION DISTRICT SO LONG AS BOTH SUCH DISTRICTS ARE WITHIN
    7  THE SAME WARD, TOWN, CITY OR VILLAGE, AND THE SAME  COUNTY  LEGISLATIVE,
    8  ASSEMBLY, SENATORIAL AND CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT. FURTHERMORE, NO CONSOL-
    9  IDATED  ELECTION  DISTRICT  CREATED  PURSUANT  TO THIS SUBDIVISION SHALL
   10  EXCEED THE TOTAL NUMBER OF REGISTERED VOTERS, EXCLUDING  REGISTRANTS  IN
   11  INACTIVE STATUS, EXCEED THE MAXIMUM NUMBER PERMITTED BY THIS SECTION.
   12    S 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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