Bill Text: NY A07162 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the number and location of early voting poll sites in certain counties.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to election law [A07162 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A07162-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7162

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     April 23, 2021
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        Introduced by M. of A. LAVINE -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Election Law

        AN  ACT  to amend the election law, in relation to the number of polling
          sites for early voting in certain counties

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

     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  (a)  of  subdivision 2 of section 8-600 of the
     2  election law, as added by chapter 6 of the laws of 2019, is  amended  to
     3  read as follows:
     4    (a)  The  board  of elections shall designate polling places for early
     5  voting, which may include the offices of the  board  of  elections,  for
     6  persons  to  vote early pursuant to this title. There shall be so desig-
     7  nated at least one early voting polling place for every  full  increment
     8  of  fifty  thousand registered voters in each county; provided, however,
     9  the number of early voting polling places  in  a  county  shall  not  be
    10  required  to  be  greater  than [seven] ten unless required by any other
    11  provision of law, and provided further that a  county  with  fewer  than
    12  fifty  thousand  voters  shall  have  at  least one early voting polling
    13  place; and provided further that in counties with a  population  of  one
    14  million  two  hundred fifty thousand or more based on the latest federal
    15  decennial census, but outside cities with a population of one million or
    16  more based on the latest federal decennial census, each town and city in
    17  such counties shall have at least one polling place.
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01512-01-1