Bill Text: NY A06582 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Permits New York city voters to sign designating petitions for multiple candidates for the same New York City municipal public office or party position.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to election law [A06582 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A06582-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6582

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     March 19, 2021
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        Introduced  by M. of A. MAMDANI -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Election Law

        AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation  to  permitting  New  York
          city  voters to sign designating petitions for multiple candidates for
          the same public office or party position

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  3  of  section 6-134 of the election law, as
     2  added by chapter 709 of the laws of 1996, is amended to read as follows:
     3    3. (a) If a voter shall sign any petition or petitions  designating  a
     4  greater  number  of  candidates for public office or party position than
     5  the number of persons to be elected thereto [his] their  signatures,  if
     6  they  bear the same date, shall not be counted upon any petition, and if
     7  they bear different dates shall be counted in the order of their priori-
     8  ty of date, for only so many  designees  as  there  are  persons  to  be
     9  elected.
    10    (b)  Notwithstanding  the provisions of paragraph (a) of this subdivi-
    11  sion, a voter in the city of New York may designate a greater number  of
    12  candidates  for  public  office  or  party  position  than the number of
    13  persons to be elected, with no limit to the number of designations.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10335-02-1