Bill Text: NY A03562 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Allows voters a fourteen day period prior to any election date to vote early.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to election law [A03562 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A03562-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3562
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 29, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  CARROLL,  BENEDETTO, COLTON, MOSLEY, D'URSO,
          BLAKE, NIOU, RICHARDSON, PHEFFER AMATO, GLICK -- Multi-Sponsored by --
          M. of A.  ENGLEBRIGHT -- read once and referred to  the  Committee  on
          Election Law
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  election  law, in relation to authorizing early
          voting
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Article  8 of the election law is amended by adding a new
     2  title 6 to read as follows:
     3                                  TITLE VI
     4                                EARLY VOTING
     5  Section 8-600. Early voting procedures.
     6    § 8-600. Early voting procedures. 1.  For  fourteen  consecutive  days
     7  ending  no  later  than  the Friday preceding the date of every primary,
     8  general and special election, a person may  vote  for  a  candidate  for
     9  public  office in a primary, general or special election, and such early
    10  voting practice may take place at such person's designated polling place
    11  or as designated by and through a county board of  elections  under  the
    12  powers  granted pursuant to this section on or before the effective date
    13  of this section.
    14    2. Each county board of elections shall  establish  permanent  polling
    15  places for early voting and shall provide at least two polling places in
    16  each  of the one hundred fifty assembly districts and such that no voter
    17  shall have to travel more than forty miles to reach such polling  place.
    18  There  shall  be  at  least  one  polling place for every fifty thousand
    19  voters in a county. Early voting shall be made available each day during
    20  such period.
    21    3. Each polling place shall be open to the  public  for  early  voting
    22  from  7  A.M.  until  8 P.M. on any business day and from 7 A.M. until 8
    23  P.M. on any Saturday or Sunday during such early voting period.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01999-01-9
        A. 3562                             2
     1    § 2. Section 4-117 of the election law is  amended  by  adding  a  new
     2  subdivision 1-a to read as follows:
     3    1-a.  The  notice  required  by  subdivision one of this section shall
     4  include the dates, hours and locations of early voting for the  general,
     5  special and primary elections.
     6    §  3. Subdivision 1 of section 8-102 of the election law is amended by
     7  adding a new paragraph (k) to read as follows:
     8    (k) Voting at each polling place for early voting shall  be  conducted
     9  in  a  manner  consistent  with the provisions of this article, with the
    10  exception of the tabulation and proclamation of election results.
    11    § 4. Section 8-104 of the election law is  amended  by  adding  a  new
    12  subdivision 7 to read as follows:
    13    7.  This  section shall apply on all early voting days as provided for
    14  in section 8-600 of this article.
    15    § 5. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 2 of section 8-508 of  the  election
    16  law,  as  amended by chapter 200 of the laws of 1996, is amended to read
    17  as follows:
    18    (b) The second section of such report shall be reserved for the  board
    19  of  inspectors to enter the name, address and registration serial number
    20  of each person who is challenged on the day of election or  any  day  in
    21  which  there  is early voting pursuant to section 8-600 of this article,
    22  together with the reason for the challenge.   If  no  voters  are  chal-
    23  lenged,  the  board  of inspectors shall enter the words "No Challenges"
    24  across the space reserved for such names. In lieu of  preparing  section
    25  two of the challenge report, the board of elections may provide, next to
    26  the  name  of  each voter on the computer generated registration list, a
    27  place for the inspectors of election to record the information  required
    28  to be entered in such section two, or provide at the end of such comput-
    29  er  generated  registration list, a place for the inspectors of election
    30  to enter such information.
    31    § 6. The state board of elections shall promulgate all rules and regu-
    32  lations necessary to effectuate the provisions of this act.
    33    § 7. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    34  have become a law and shall begin with 2021 primary elections.