Bill Text: NY A07975 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to automatic dialing-announcing device call notification of a change in location of a polling place.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to election law [A07975 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A07975-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7975
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      May 23, 2017
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  DE LA ROSA  -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Election Law
        AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to  automatic  dialing-an-
          nouncing device call notification of a change in location of a polling
          place
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section  4-104  of  the  election  law  is
     2  amended to read as follows:
     3    2.  If  the board of elections, after designating a polling place, and
     4  after sending written notice of such polling place  to  each  registered
     5  voter,  designates  an alternative polling place, it must, at least five
     6  days before the next election or day for registration, send  by  mail  a
     7  written  notice  and call by automatic dialing-announcing device to each
     8  registered voter notifying him of the changed location of  such  polling
     9  place.  If  such  notice  is  not  possible  the board of elections must
    10  provide for an alternative form of notice to be given to voters  at  the
    11  location of the previous polling place.
    12    §  2.  Paragraph (a) of subdivision 5 of section 4-104 of the election
    13  law, as amended by chapter 95 of the laws of 1995, is amended to read as
    14  follows:
    15    (a) Whenever the number of voters eligible to vote in an  election  in
    16  any election district is less than one hundred, the polling place desig-
    17  nated  for  such district may be the polling place of any other district
    18  which could properly be designated as the polling  place  of  the  first
    19  mentioned  district  pursuant  to the provisions of this chapter, except
    20  that the polling place designated for any such district may be the poll-
    21  ing place of any other district in such city or town provided  that  the
    22  distance  from  such  first  mentioned district to the polling place for
    23  such other district is not unreasonable pursuant to rules or regulations
    24  prescribed by the state board of elections and provided that  the  total
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11103-01-7
        A. 7975                             2
     1  number  of  persons  eligible  to  vote  in  such other district in such
     2  election, including the persons eligible to vote in such first mentioned
     3  districts, is not more than five hundred. The inspectors of election and
     4  poll  clerks,  if any, of such other election district shall also act in
     5  all respects as the election officers for such first mentioned districts
     6  and no other inspectors shall be appointed to serve in or for such first
     7  mentioned districts. A separate poll ledger or computer generated regis-
     8  tration list, separate voting machine or ballots and separate canvass of
     9  results shall be provided for such  first  mentioned  districts,  except
    10  that if the candidates and ballot proposals to be voted on by the voters
    11  of such districts are the same, the election districts shall be combined
    12  and  shall  constitute  a single election district for that election. If
    13  the polling place for any election district is moved for  any  election,
    14  pursuant  to  the provisions of this subdivision, the board of elections
    15  shall, not later than  ten  nor  more  than  fifteen  days  before  such
    16  election,  mail,  by first class mail, to each voter eligible to vote in
    17  such election district at such election,  a  notice  setting  forth  the
    18  location of the polling place for such election and specifying that such
    19  location  is  for  such election only and call, by automatic dialing-an-
    20  nouncing device, any voter that has supplied  the  board  with  a  phone
    21  number.
    22    §  3.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    23  have become a law.