Bill Text: NY A06971 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Requires the counting of an affidavit ballot of an eligible voter if such voter appeared at a polling place in the correct county but in the incorrect election district.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-04-05 - print number 6971a [A06971 Detail]
Download: New_York-2009-A06971-Amended.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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6971--A
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
March 18, 2009
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Introduced by M. of A. LENTOL -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Election Law -- recommitted to the Committee on Election Law in
accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill
amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
tee
AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to counting of affidavit
ballots
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Subparagraph 3 of paragraph a of subdivision 2 of section
2 9-209 of the election law, as added by chapter 248 of the laws of 2009,
3 is amended to read as follows:
4 3. If the board of elections determines that a person was entitled to
5 vote at such election, the board shall cast and canvass such ballot if
6 such board finds that the voter appeared at [the correct] A polling
7 place IN THE CORRECT COUNTY, regardless of the fact that the voter may
8 have appeared in the incorrect election district.
9 S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD05016-04-0
