Bill Text: NY A03504 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Provides voters with a warning about New York's closed primary system on voter registration forms.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to election law [A03504 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A03504-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3504 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 29, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. CARROLL, BENEDETTO, COLTON, MOSLEY, D'URSO, L. ROSENTHAL, BLAKE, DINOWITZ, RICHARDSON, ABINANTI, SIMON -- Multi- Sponsored by -- M. of A. LENTOL -- read once and referred to the Committee 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: 1 Section 1. Paragraph (f) of subdivision 5 of section 5-210 of the 2 election law, as amended by chapter 179 of the laws of 2005, is amended 3 to read as follows: 4 (f) Notice [that political] in bold and prominent type, stating: "The 5 state of New York practices a closed party primary system. Political 6 party enrollment is optional, but [that,] in order to vote in a primary 7 election of a political party, a voter must enroll in that political 8 party, unless state party rules allow [otherwise] otherwise". 9 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD02018-01-9
